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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 - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010789775
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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 - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839535
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Reducing illegal immigration to South Africa: A dynamic CGE analysis
Bohlmann, Heinrich R. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2012
South African authorities are attempting to limit inflows of illegal immigrants. Evidence for the United States presented in Dixon et al (2011) suggests that a policy-induced reduction in labour supply from illegal immigrants generates a welfare loss for legal residents. I use a similar labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095449
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Spending More is Spending Less: Policy Dilemmas on Irregular Migration
Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012
an amnesty is desirable compared to tolerating undocumented immigrants. Next, we study when it is preferable to have ex … decision: an amnesty is more likely the larger are the output gains brought about by the legalization, the less redistributive …. Importantly, we also find that, when an amnesty is desirable, the destination country would reach an even higher welfare level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561639
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The rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal migration
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Despite restrictive migration policies, large numbers of undocumented migrants reside in many destination countries. If official migration targets are not enforced, why are they devised? To address this puzzle, we develop a political agency model with uncertainty on the migrants' supply, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854513
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Liquidity-constrained migrants
Djajić, Slobodan; Vinogradova, Alexandra - In: Journal of International Economics 93 (2014) 1, pp. 210-224
Liquidity constraints represent a major obstacle for potential migrants trying to meet the high cost of undocumented international migration. Some cover it by borrowing from a smuggling organization with a commitment to repay the loan by working in the destination country as bonded laborers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011056366
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Reducing illegal immigration to South Africa: A dynamic CGE analysis
Bohlmann, Heinrich R. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
South African authorities are attempting to limit inflows of illegal immigrants. Evidence for the United States presented in Dixon et al (2011) suggests that a policy-induced reduction in labour supply from illegal immigrants generates a welfare loss for legal residents. I use a similar labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538962
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Illegal Immigration, Deportation Policy, and the Optimal Timing of Return
Vinogradova, Alexandra - 2015
Countries with strict immigration policies often resort to deportation measures to reduce their stocks of illegal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753282
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Does illegal immigration empower rightist parties?
García, Ángel Solano - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2006
the control of immigration. In particular we explore the consequences on the political outcome of the fact that parties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163446
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On the economics and politics of refugee migration
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite numerous attempts at developing a common European asylum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543213