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Legalization and long-term outcomes of immigrant workers
Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2024
This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...
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Politics, unemployment, and the enforcement of immigration law
Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - 2012
Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of laws and regulations. They are also determined by the incentives faced by vote-maximizing congressmen, agents acting on their behalf, and workers likely to compete with...
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Granting birthright citizenship : a door opener for immigrant children's educational participation and success
Felfe, Christina; Saurer, Judith - 2014
Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405241
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Visas and work permits : possible global negotiating initiatives
Ng, Chi-Yung (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005
We discuss global options for initiatives intended to ameliorate adverse impacts of visa and work permit systems used by national governments around the world. We first describe and document some of their effects, noting the relative lack of other research work on these issues. We then discuss...
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Give me your tired and your poor : impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees
Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020
Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest migratory amnesty program offered to undocumented migrants in a … undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia in August 2018. To identify the effects of the program, we match confidential … administrative data on the location of undocumented migrants with department-monthly data from household surveys and compare labor …
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688026
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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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"Cultural persistence" of health capital : evidence from European migrants
Costa-Font, Joan; Sato, Azusa - 2016
persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral … assessments by an average of 16%, and that of second generation migrants between 11% and 25%. Estimates are heterogeneous by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497628
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Immigrants' contribution to innovativeness : evidence from a non-selective immigration country
Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018
The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of...
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Drawbridges down : altruism and immigration preferences
Hansen, Ole-Petter Moe; Legge, Stefan - 2016
This paper advances and empirically establishes the idea that altruism is an important determinant of individual preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual norms and values strongly shape preferences over...
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