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 …

policies against illegal immigration in border countries. This paper determines optimal enforcement and amnesty policies on …Illegal immigration is a major policy challenge in Europe, in particular in countries on the external border of the EU … illegal immigration in a federation with border and non-border countries. We show that in the Nash equilibrium with positive …

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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and the size of the informal or underground economy. Using … regional variation for the Spanish provinces we find that the massive immigration wave between 2000 and 2009 is highly … substantially reduced the number of illegal workers but did not affect the relationship between immigration and informality. …