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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004
The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261985
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Refugee and asylum migration to the OECD: A short overview
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2012
examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention … policies in deterring asylum seekers. The paper concludes with an outline of the assimilation of refugees in host country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289994
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid …, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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When Migrants Overstay Their Legal Welcome : A Proposed Solution to the Guest-Worker Program
Schiff, Maurice - 2004
A number of developed countries have implemented guest-worker programs in recent decades. Its basic feature is the temporary presence of the foreign guest-workers. The problem with such programs is that there is little to prevent these guest-workers from entering the illegal job market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262144
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US immigration policy at a crossroads
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291373
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Illegal Immigration and the Shadow Economy
Camacho, Carmen; Mariani, Fabio; Pensieroso, Luca - 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/10011420723
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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
the U.S. New Immigrant Survey. Initial findings include: (1) The visa categories have distinctive ethnic configurations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269358
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The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 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 arise for two reasons: the policy maker may be unable to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421199
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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 arise for two reasons: the policy maker may be unable to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959678
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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
the U.S. New Immigrant Survey. Initial findings include: (1) The visa categories have distinctive ethnic configurations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999162