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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...

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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 - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 71 (2018) 4, pp. 853-881

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Fiscal Revenues and Commitment in Immigration Amnesties

Magris, Francesco; Russo, Giuseppe - In: European journal of political economy 42 (2016), pp. 75-90

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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 illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and...

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Braving the Waves : The Role of Time and Risk Preferences in Illegal Migration from Senegal

Arcand, Jean-Louis - 2013

migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in …

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Braving the waves : the role of time and risk preferences in illegal migration from Senegal

Arcand, Jean-Louis L.; Mbaye, Linguère Mously - 2013

migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777011

Work effort, moderation in expulsion and illegal migration

Stark, Oded (contributor) - 2006

Illegal migrants supply a valuable productive input: effort. But their status as illegals means that these migrants … wage at origin is lower than the wage at destination. This prospect induces illegal migrants to exert more work effort than … migrants will be subjected to upon their return, for a given probability of expulsion, and the higher the level of effort they …

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A positive theory of immigration amnesties: a comment

Solano García, Ángel - In: Economics letters 103 (2009) 2, pp. 117

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The why, when and how of immigration amnesties

Epstein, Gil S.; Weiss, Avi - 2009

This paper presents some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. Complementing studies by Chau (2001, 2003), Karlson and Katz (2003) and Gang and Yun (2006), we consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border...

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Remittances to Latin America from migrants in the United States : assessing the impact of amnesty programs

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Mazzolari, Francesca - In: Journal of development economics 91 (2010) 2, pp. 323-335

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