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Moonlighting Behavior over the Business Cycle

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Kimmel, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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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Panos, Georgios A.; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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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Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?

Dolado, Juan José; Felgueroso, Florentino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the …

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Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program

Devillanova, Carlo; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on...

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The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies why illegal immigration is widespread. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the supply of migrants. Illegal immigration can arise for two reasons: the policy maker may be unable to...

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A Theory of Immigration Amnesties

Epstein, Gil S.; Weiss, Avi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and...

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From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina; Massey, Douglas S.; Rosenzweig, Mark R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper develops a framework for estimating previous illegal experience among annual cohorts of new legal immigrants to the United States – using public-use administrative microdata alone, survey data alone, and the two jointly – and provides estimates for the FY 1996 cohort of new...

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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...

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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...

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Trade Policy and Illegal Immigration

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Takashima, Ryo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We use a version of the Meade model to consider the effects of interdependent import tariffs in the presence illegal immigration. First, we consider the small union case and derive the Nash tariff equilibrium for two potential members of a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA). We analyze...

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