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Policies on illegal immigration in a federation
Mayr, Karin; Minter, Steffen; Krieger, Tim - In: Regional science & urban economics 42 (2012) 1/2, pp. 153-165
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Policies on illegal immigration in a federation
Mayr, Karin; Minter, Steffen; Krieger, Tim - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 153-165
policies against illegal immigration in border countries. This paper determines optimal enforcement and amnesty policies on …, taking into account the interactions between the two types of policies. Among other results we find that total enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608483
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Immigration amnesty and immigrant's earnings
Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006
country offering an amnesty, often in conjunction with increased border controls, internal enforcement and employer penalties …. We model an immigration amnesty in which the destination country has a formal sector employing only legal immigrants, an … employer. Furthermore, to measure the impact of amnesty on welfare of migrants, we estimate earnings equations of various …
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Illegal immigration and a heterogeneous labour force. When can quotas generate an internal conflict?
Larramona, Gemma; Clemente, Jesus; Garcia-Castrillo, Pedro - 2004
In this paper we analyze the effects on the welfare of heterogeneous native workers in the context of the presence of legal and illegal immigrants, and where the main instrument of economic policy takes the form of entry quotas. In the framework of a model of overlapping generations, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318791
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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269358
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Rethinking border enforcement, permanent and circular migration
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Park, Seunghyun - 2021
Canonical models of migration feature border enforcement as a strategy to contain undocumented immigration by … effectively exacting a mobility cost. This paper revisits the role of border enforcement policy in a task-based model of the labor … and native workers who perform complementary tasks at the efficiency wage. We show that stricter border enforcement is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703060
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Rethinking Border Enforcement, Permanent and Circular Migration
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Park, Brian - 2022
Canonical models of migration feature border enforcement as a strategy to contain undocumented immigration by … effectively exacting a mobility cost. This paper revisits the role of border enforcement policy in a task-based model of the labor … and native workers who perform complementary tasks at the efficiency wage. We show that stricter border enforcement is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244381
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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999162
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A theory of immigration amnesties
Epstein, Gil S.; Weiss, Avi - 2001
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401455
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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status : evidence from policy experiments
Fasani, Francesco - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418913