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Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Natives in Regional Labour Markets: A Meta-Analysis

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … immigration on labour market outcomes. We apply meta-analytic techniques to 165 estimates from 9 recent studies for various OECD …

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An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century

DeVoretz, Don J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers …

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Minimum Wages and the Creation of Illegal Migration

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler (Cohen), Odelia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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The Effect of Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Crime and Labor Market Outcomes

Huttunen, Kristiina; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Mälkönen, Ville - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies why illegal immigration is widespread. We develop a political agency model in which a politician … decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the supply of migrants. Illegal immigration can … majority of voters have different preferences over immigration. Empirical evidence provides strong support for our predictions …

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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...

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Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

(especially the young and low-tenured ones) to pursue less manual-intensive occupations. As a result immigration had positive …

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