Do state work eligibility verification laws reduce unauthorized immigration?

Table 5 The effect of different types of E-Verify laws on population size

	Likely unauthorized immigrants				Less-educated US natives
Law covers	All	Not recent	Recent	New	Whites	Blacks	Hispanics
Government employees	−0.031* (0.018)	−0.013 (0.019)	−0.036 (0.041)	−0.105 (0.154)	0.001 (0.009)	−0.011 (0.014)	−0.002 (0.027)
Government contractors	0.035 (0.024)	0.045* (0.027)	0.020 (0.048)	0.018 (0.133)	0.013 (0.010)	0.027* (0.014)	−0.028 (0.030)
All workers	−0.069** (0.029)	−0.020 (0.032)	−0.273*** (0.081)	−0.516** (0.252)	−0.011 (0.012)	−0.004 (0.022)	0.015 (0.069)
N	510	510	510	510	510	510	510

*p < 0.1; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01
Note: Shown are estimated coefficients on a variable measuring the fraction of the year that an E-Verify law covering government employees, government contractors, or all workers was in effect in a state. The dependent variable is logged. Each column is from a separate OLS regression. The regressions include the log of state real GDP per capita, the unemployment rate, housing permits, housing starts, and the log of real state government expenditures per capita (all lagged 1 year); state and year fixed effects; and state-specific linear time trends. Observations are weighted using the sum of the person weights in the population group. Standard errors are robust and clustered on state