Immigration and Economic Freedom: Does Education Matter?

32 Pages Posted: 17 Jun 2019 Last revised: 5 Sep 2019

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Alexandre Padilla

Metropolitan State University of Denver - Department of Economics

Nicolas Cachanosky

The University of Texas at El Paso; American Institute for Economic Research; UCEMA Friedman-Hayek Center for the Study of a Free Society

Jonathan Beck

Metropolitan State University of Denver, Department of Economics

Date Written: May 30, 2019

Abstract

This paper builds on Padilla and Cachanosky (2018) and examines if immigrants’ educational attainments matter, particularly for immigrants with low educational attainments, when it comes to test the impact immigrants have on the economic freedom of the US states. Except in the area of government transfers and subsidies, we don’t find any evidence to support such hypothesis. In addition, our results indicate that the economic significance associated with immigrants without a high school diploma’s negative impact on economic freedom score for the area of government transfers and subsidies is likely trivial. Our results are robust to various specifications.

Keywords: Economic Freedom, Education, Immigration, Institutions, State Government

JEL Classification: F22, H70, O43

Suggested Citation

Padilla, Alexandre and Cachanosky, Nicolas and Beck, Jonathan, Immigration and Economic Freedom: Does Education Matter? (May 30, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3396748 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3396748

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Nicolas Cachanosky

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Jonathan Beck

Metropolitan State University of Denver, Department of Economics ( email )

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