Illegal Aliens: A Preliminary Report on an Employee-Employer Survey
报告了一项针对非法移民及其雇主的匹配数据集的开发与初步分析，通过工资和在职培训两个例子，展示了如何利用这些数据研究非法移民的劳动力市场调整与影响。
This paper reports on the development and preliminary analysis of a unique data file that includes matched employee-employer data for a sample of illegal aliens and parallel data on the establishment and workforce for employers randomly selected from industry directories. It is shown how these data can be used to address substantive issues regarding the labor market adjustment and impact of illegal aliens through 2 examples analyses of wages and on-the-job training. In addition to the myriad of specific conclusions that have been developed from the methodological and data analyses 2 general conclusions emerge from this project. 1 is that the methodology is successful for investigating the labor market adjustment and impact of illegal aliens. More generally it demonstrates the feasibility of developing employee-employer matched data files for other demographic groups or the labor force as a whole. The other is that the illegal alien labor market appears to be well-functioning; i.e. it is competitive fluid and flexible and provides opportunities for economic advancement and job mobility even for low-skilled foreign-born workers in this country illegally. (authors)