Minimum Wages and the Creation of Illegal Migration

In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal foreign workers will increase the number of illegal immigrants which will replace the employment of the local population and thus creating illegal migration

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Epstein, Gil S.
Other Persons:	Heizler, Odelia (contributor)
Publisher:	[2013]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Mindestlohn \| Minimum wage \| Arbeitsmigranten \| Migrant workers \| Theorie \| Theory \| Schwarzarbeit \| Moonlighting \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Rechtsdurchsetzung \| Law enforcement \| Arbeitsnachfrage \| Labor demand \| Illegale Migration \| Illegal immigration

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (12 p)
Series:	IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 7220
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.2223147 [DOI]
Classification:	J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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