PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kaushal, Neeraj
TI  - Amnesty Programs and the Labor Market Outcomes of Undocumented Workers
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XLI.3.631
DP  - 2006 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 631--647
VI  - XLI
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/3/631.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/3/631.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2006 Jul 01; XLI
AB  - I investigate the effect of the 1997 Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) on employment and earnings of undocumented foreign-born men from Nicaragua, Cuba, Guatemala, and El Salvador who were eligible for amnesty under the Act. I find that NACARA had a modest effect on the employment of these men; raised their real wage by 3 percent and weekly earnings by 4 percent. Estimates show that NACARA raised the wage of the target group without a high school degree by a statistically insignificant 1 percent and of those with high school or higher education by a statistically significant 5 percent.