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immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that … undocumented immigrants in our sample normally experience in their first year after arrival in Italy. These findings are robust to …
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Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...
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This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) from 1987-1992, a...
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This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access based on individuals' nationality. We apply a difference-in-difference approach using...
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) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the …
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The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A sequential profile of the working lives of employees is...
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Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we examine the cyclicality by sex of moonlighting and … moonlighting hours. We find that, once we account for the sample selection into employment, both men and women exhibit procyclical … moonlighting probabilities. Likewise, moonlighting hours for male multiple job holders are procyclical. These findings contradict …
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The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’s underground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Our approach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and extended by Lyssiotou et al. (2004). The basic...
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We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' enclaves), we find that the overall stock of immigrants did not have any effect on innovation....
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from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … Immigrants. Following the “epidemiological approach”, we relate the probability of being employed in Italy for immigrant women …
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