We review the role immigration amnesties have played in US immigration policy, placing them in the context of similar …. We model an immigration amnesty in which the destination country has a formal sector employing only legal immigrants, an …

We study the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the receiving economy where the market … empirical fact that high and low skilled workers are close albeit imperfect substitutes, we show that high skilled immigration … can either be beneficial or harmful, both in terms of employment and net income. More precisely, we conclude that a Pareto …