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What Drives Immigration Amnesties?
Casarico, Alessandra - 2012
We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two channels play an important role: an amnesty is more likely...
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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law
Makowsky, Michael D. - 2012
Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of laws and regulations. They are also determined by the incentives faced by vote-maximizing congressmen, agents acting on their behalf, and workers likely to compete with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107354
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On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979577
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Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2021
We analyze the effect of immigrants’ legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315505
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The Labor Market Impact of Undocumented Immigrants : Job Creation vs. Job Competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper studies the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a model with search frictions and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather than natives. Therefore, immigration results in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949378
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Après Nous Le Déluge : Fertility and the Intensity of Struggle against Immigration
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2013
This paper is inspired by a puzzling empirical fact that despite the importance of controlling migration for their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094675
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Migration into the Welfare State : Tax and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2013
capital), and the volume of migration (of both skill types), to be higher in the competitive regime than in the coordinated … positive if the (state variable) the capital stock is within a certain range, or zero, otherwise. Migration share of native … level, otherwise. In the case of private saving only regime, the migration share is intermediate level. Thus, migration …
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Immigration and Internal Mobility in Canada
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2014
-matching framework (Pissaridès, 1985, 2000) in a migration model à la Harris and Todaro (1970). We find that the inflow of TFWs into a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051620
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD : What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzyński, Michał - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post-crisis wave (2011–2015) for OECD native citizens. To do so, we develop a general equilibrium model that accounts for the main channels of transmission of immigration shocks...
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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
Blau, Francine D. - 2014
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
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