This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to … immigrants, and how the interactions between these factors combine to yield an optimal amnesty policy. We also consider various … eligibility for an amnesty aimed at apprehending and deporting undesirables. …

This paper presents some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. Complementing … to yield an optimal amnesty policy. We also consider two extensions – intertemporal transfers of policing funds and … “fuzziness” in declarations regarding eligibility for an amnesty aimed at apprehending and deporting undesirables. -- Amnesty …

This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to … immigrants, and how the interactions between these factors combine to yield an optimal amnesty policy. We also consider various … eligibility for an amnesty aimed at apprehending and deporting undesirables …

the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two …We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in … channels play an important role: an amnesty is more likely the more restricted are the occupational opportunities of …

therefore used amnesty programs (or similar policy changes) to establish causal relationships. In this paper, we propose a first … different residence statuses, and we then exploit a specific amnesty programme to produce causal estimates of the impact of … legal status. Our results confirm previous findings in the literature and show that the design of the specific amnesty …

immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that … significantly increases the employment probability of immigrants that are potentially eligible for the amnesty relative to other …

immigration on wages and, on the other, the part of income generated by the illegal immigrants that is appropriated by the natives … for managing this “informal” labour market. Keywords: Illegal immigration; entry quotas; qualification. JEL: F22, J61,J68. …

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the short-term effect of the Arizona Immigration Law of 2010 (SB 1070) on the … of the effects of federal and statelevel immigration legislation. …