This paper analyzes the effect of foreign aid on illegal immigration and host country welfare using a general equilibrium model. We show that foreign aid may worsen the recipient nation's terms of trade. Furthermore, it may also raise illegal immigration, if the terms of trade effect on...

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...

The difference between documented and undocumented immigrants plays a significant role in the migration and settlement processes. Undocumented immigrants may be distinguished from their legal co-nationals by the specific roles that they play in immigrant business. First, they are business...

We consider the issue of illegal migration from Mexico to the US, and examine whether the lack of legal status causally impacts on outcomes, specifically wages and remitting behavior. These outcomes are of particular interest given the extent of legal and illegal migration, and the resulting...

In this paper we show that highly skilled undocumented migrants are more likely to return home than migrants with low or no skills when illegality causes quot;skill waste,quot; i.e., when illegality reduces the rate of return of individual capabilities (i.e., skills and human capital) in both...

The issue of immigration has long been part of American politics; often considered the land of immigrants, policies regarding immigration have sharply divided the country along party lines and ideologies. These and other factors have prevented the federal government coming out with a...

The paper aims to assess the main migration effects upon Romania following its accession to the EU, with a special focus on Moldova as Romania's immediate neighbor and ENP partner state at the EU Eastern border. It relies on key findings drawn from current literature in the field, statistics...

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...

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...