Data and Code for: Immigration Enforcement and the Hiring of Low-Skilled Labor

We examine how firms adjust their labor demand to immigration policy changes resulting from intensified interior immigration enforcement. Using the temporal and geographic variation in the adoption of such policies as a source of identification, we find that firms boost their demand for low-skilled foreign-born labor under the H-2B visa program as enforcement intensifies. Furthermore, firms’ increased demand for guest workers is inversely related to native’s employment in occupations hiring most H-2B workers; however, it does not seem to alter their wage, work hours, or redistribute native labor away from those occupations. <br><br><br><br><br>