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The COVID-19 curtain: can past Communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe?

Berniell, Inés; Fawaz, Yarine; Laferrère, Anne; Mira, … - 2021

As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in part, this heterogeneity in vaccination decisions across Europe? To study this question we...

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The economic impact of organized crime infiltration in the legal economy : evidence from the judicial administration of organized crime firms

Calamunci, Francesca; Drago, Francesco - 2020

We analyze the economic consequences on firm profitability, performance, and investments of having another firm in the same market affiliated with a criminal organization. We do so by evaluating the spillover effects of a law providing the judicial administration of organized crime firms through...

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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 - 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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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? : labor market effects of immigrant legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph M. - 2010

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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Immigrant crime and legal status : evidence from repeated amnesty programs

Fasani, Francesco - 2016

Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by exploiting both cross-sectional and time variation in the number of immigrants legalized generated by the enactment of repeated amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We...

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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

Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...

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The economic contribution of unauthorized workers : an industry analysis

Edwards, Ryan D.; Ortega, Francesc - 2016

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy, and the potential gains from legalization. We employ a theoretical framework that allows for multiple industries and a heterogeneous workforce in terms of skills and...

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U.S. immigration reform and the dynamics of Mexican migration

Altangerel, Khulan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017

The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security and sanctioning employers who hired unauthorized immigrants. Our paper investigates how the...

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Monopsony, efficiency, and the regularization of undocumented immigrants

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2023

In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...

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Going after the addiction, not the addicted : the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal

Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro; Tavares, Ana - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal using the Synthetic Control Method. The … applied econometric methodology compares Portuguese drug-related variables with the ones extracted from a convex combination … in the number of heroine and cocaine seizures, a decrease in the number of offenses and drug-related deaths, and a …

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