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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Brown, J. David - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
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Illegal Immigration and the Shadow Economy
Camacho, Carmen - 2015
We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as tax reduction and detection of informal activities can be used as substitutes for border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009511
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On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
numerous attempts at developing a common European asylum policy, EU countries continue to differ widely in interpretation and … movements, illegal border crossings, and asylum applications to EU member states. We next turn to the economics of refugee …, we illustrate the economic integration of past refugee migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policy …
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Minimum Wages and the Creation of Illegal Migration
Epstein, Gil S. - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086228
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Illegal Migration, Wages, and Remittances : Semi-Parametric Estimation of Illegality Effects
Schluter, Christian - 2009
We consider the issue of illegal migration from Mexico to the US, and examine whether the lack of legal status causally impacts on outcomes, specifically wages and remitting behavior. These outcomes are of particular interest given the extent of legal and illegal migration, and the resulting...
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Intentions to Return of Undocumented Migrants : Illegality as a Cause of Skill Waste
Coniglio, Nicola D. - 2006
In this paper we show that highly skilled undocumented migrants are more likely to return home than migrants with low or no skills when illegality causes quot;skill waste,quot; i.e., when illegality reduces the rate of return of individual capabilities (i.e., skills and human capital) in both...
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How Do E-Verify Mandates Affect Unauthorized Immigrant Workers?
Orrenius, Pia M. - 2014
A number of states have adopted laws that require employers to use the federal government's E-Verify program to check workers' eligibility to work legally in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey, this study examines whether such laws affect labor market outcomes among...
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Illegal Immigration and Fiscal Competition
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2015
Reflecting recent enforcement policy activism of US states, this paper examines federal-state overlap of illegal immigration policy in a spatial context. Keeping the US-Mexico context in mind, we assume that labor from a source nation enters a host nation through bordering states. Once in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021960
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Employment Verification Mandates and the Labor Market Outcomes of Likely Unauthorized and Native Workers
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2013
As recent efforts to reform immigration policy at the federal level have failed, states have started to take immigration matters into their own hands and researchers have been paying closer attention to state dynamics surrounding immigration policy. Yet, to this date, there is not a clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080870
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Rethinking Border Enforcement, Permanent and Circular Migration
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Park, Brian - 2022
Canonical models of migration feature border enforcement as a strategy to contain undocumented immigration by effectively exacting a mobility cost. This paper revisits the role of border enforcement policy in a task-based model of the labor market where employers simultaneously hire circular...
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