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Give me your tired and your poor : impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees
Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020
Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest migratory amnesty program offered to undocumented migrants in a … undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia in August 2018. To identify the effects of the program, we match confidential … administrative data on the location of undocumented migrants with department-monthly data from household surveys and compare labor …
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The political cost of being soft on crime : evidence from a natural experiment
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2017
We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …
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Legalization and long-term outcomes of immigrant workers
Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2024
This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
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What drives immigration amnesties?
Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - 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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Dismantling the "Jungle" : migrant relocation and extreme voting in France
Vertier, Paul; Viskanic, Max - 2018 - This version: January 9, 2018
Can a small scale inflow of migrants affect electoral outcomes? We study whether the relocation of migrants from the …
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Migrants' missing votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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Learning from the origins
Yarkin, Alexander - 2023
How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2016
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/10011444496
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688026