In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence … of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal … foreign workers will increase the number of illegal immigrants which will replace the employment of the local population and …

This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various … services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal … immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in certain professions and may themselves employ other illegal immigrants …

dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of …, quality of education and wages. …

the long-run viability of society as a whole. One possible solution is to permit more immigration, which will both … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population …, which vary according to age and wealth. One of these is the threat to local social norms and culture since immigrants tend …

A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the … consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less … assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local population to the migrants and their willingness to accept the …

Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups … of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of … immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder. We use Israeli data to compare two ethnic groups: Israeli Arabs and …

how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …

The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …