Minimum wages and the creation of illegal migration

In this paper, we explore employersâ€™ 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:	2013-02
Authors:	Epstein, Gil S. ; Odelia (Cohen) Heizler
Institutions:	Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London (UCL)
Subject:	illegal immigration \| foreign worker \| minimum wages

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CReAM Discussion Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 1306
Classification:	J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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