DOES EMPLOYING UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS GIVE FIRMS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE?*
利用佐治亚州行政数据，研究发现雇佣无证工人平均使企业退出风险降低19%，且该优势随行业雇佣比例、市场广度及劳动密集度上升而增强，随工人技能水平上升而减弱。
ABSTRACT Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that, on average, across all firms, employing undocumented workers reduces a firm's hazard of exit by 19 percent. The advantage to firms from employing undocumented workers increases as more firms in the industry do so, decreases with the skill level of the firm's workers, increases with the breadth of a firm's market, and increases with the labor intensity of the firm's production process.