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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 - 2014
This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350887
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What drives immigration amnesties?
Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - 2012
We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in … the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two … in our theoretical model. -- illegal immigration ; amnesties ; labor market mismatch ; welfare state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665393
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Immigrant crime and legal status : evidence from repeated amnesty programs
Fasani, Francesco - 2016
Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by exploiting both cross-sectional and time variation in the number of immigrants legalized generated by the enactment of repeated amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543218
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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status : evidence from policy experiments
Fasani, Francesco - 2014
Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472833
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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status : evidence from policy experiments
Fasani, Francesco - 2014
Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418913
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Immigrant crime and legal status : evidence from repeated amnesty programs
Fasani, Francesco - 2018
Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by exploiting cross-sectional and time variation in the number of immigrants legalized generated by the enactment of repeated amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We address the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904536
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Immigrant Crime and Legal Status : Evidence from Repeated Amnesty Programs
Fasani, Francesco - 2016
Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by exploiting both cross-sectional and time variation in the number of immigrants legalized generated by the enactment of repeated amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982116
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Legalizing undocumented immigrants : while legalization benefits most undocumented immigrants, deciding how to regularize them is challenging
Bansak, Cynthia - 2016
Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449506
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Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants
Monras, Joan - 2018
This paper investigates the consequences of the legalization of around 600,000 immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government of Zapatero following the terrorist attacks of March 2004 (Garcia-Montalvo, 2011). Using detailed data from payroll-tax revenues, we estimate that each newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926946
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Understanding the effects of legalizing undocumented immigrants
Monras, Joan; Vázquez-Grenno, Javier; Elias, Ferran - 2018
This paper investigates the consequences of the legalization of around 600,000 immigrants by the unexpectedly elected Spanish government of Zapatero following the terrorist attacks of March 2004 (Garcia-Montalvo, 2011). Using detailed data from payroll-tax revenues, we estimate that each newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806292