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Guest workers in the underground economy

Djajić, Slobodan; Mesnard, Alice - 2013

Guest-worker programs have been providing rapidly growing economies with millions of temporary foreign workers over the last couple of decades. With the duration of stay strictly limited by program rules in most of the host countries and wages paid to guest workers often set at sub-market...

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The rhetoric of closed borders : quotas, lax enforcement and illegal migration

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2014

This paper studies why illegal immigration is widespread. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the supply of migrants. Illegal immigration can arise for two reasons: the policy maker may be unable to...

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The Evolution of Citizenship : Economic and Institutional Determinants

Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - 2021

We investigate the origin and evolution of the legal institution of citizenship. We compile a new data set on … citizenship laws across countries of the world which documents how these institutions have evolved from the legal tradition of … common and civil law established in the course of the 19th century. We show that in the postwar period citizenship laws have …

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Après nous le Déluge : fertility and the intensity of struggle against immigration

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010

This paper is inspired by a puzzling empirical fact that despite the importance of controlling migration for their future, the host countries allocate very limited amounts of resources to the struggle against illegal immigration. The present model analyzes this issue in the context of low...

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The Political Economy of Migration Enforcement : Domestic Versus Border Control

Facchini, Giovanni - 2015

We study migration policy enforcement by an elected government. The policy-maker faces uncertainty on the supply of migrants, but has more information than the public on its preferences and the extent and effectiveness of its enforcement activities. We show that a utilitarian government...

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The Rhetoric of Closed Borders : Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Immigration

Facchini, Giovanni - 2011

In2008,approximately 12 million immigrants lived illegally in the United States,and large numbers of undocumented foreigners resided also in other advanced destination countries. Hence, attempts at controlling immigration ﬂows seem to often fail. If governments are not enforcing their...

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Après Nous Le Déluge : Fertility and the Intensity of Struggle against Immigration

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2013

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The Rhetoric of Closed Borders : Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration

Facchini, Giovanni - 2014

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Illegal immigration and the shadow economy

Camacho, Carmen; Mariani, Fabio; Pensieroso, Luca - 2015

We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as tax reduction and detection of informal activities can be used as substitutes for border...

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Immigration reform : the effects of employer sanctions and legalization on wages

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Shiells, Clinton Russell; … - 1995

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