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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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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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Illegal Migration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines the connection between illegal migration, minimum wages and enforcement policy. We first explore the employers’ decision regarding the employment of illegal migrants in the presence of an effective minimum wage. We show that the employers’ decision depends on the wage gap...

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Trade Policy and Illegal Immigration

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Takashima, Ryo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

immigration. First, we consider the small union case and derive the Nash tariff equilibrium for two potential members of a …

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When Migrants Overstay Their Legal Welcome: A Proposed Solution to the Guest-Worker Program

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

be beneficial for all parties concerned. It presents a host country immigration policy that tries to achieve these …

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A Theory of Immigration Amnesties

Epstein, Gil S.; Weiss, Avi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and...

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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and … evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and cross …

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