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Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers
Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - 2000
consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which is a consequence of a view of unemployment as a labor-market discipline … unemployment. We demonstrate that a socially harmonious policy is always feasible. Outcomes without social harmony can therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262377
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Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants
Epstein, Gil S. - 2000
This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262409
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Social harmony at the boundaries of the welfare state : immigrants and social transfers
Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - 2000
consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which is a consequence of a view of unemployment as a labor-market discipline … unemployment. We demonstrate that a socially harmonious policy is always feasible. Outcomes without social harmony can therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336874
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Labor market interactions between legal and illegal immigrants
Epstein, Gil S. - 2000
This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339094
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Labor Market Interactions between Legal and Illegal Immigrants
Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321231
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Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State : Immigrants and Social Transfers
Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - 2021
consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which is a consequence of a view of unemployment as a labor-market discipline … unemployment. We demonstrate that a socially harmonious policy is always feasible. Outcomes without social harmony can therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321261
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Creating Illegal Immigrants
Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L.; Weiss, Avi - 2010
This paper considers the prospects for successful implementation by governments of guest-worker programs that are based on an intended temporary presence of foreign workers. A means of enforcement of temporary presence is a penalty imposed for overstaying the permissible time period. Employers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200420
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Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants
Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822864
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Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers
Epstein, Gil S.; Hillman, Arye L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
consistent with social harmony. The social harmony, which is a consequence of a view of unemployment as a labor-market discipline … unemployment. We demonstrate that a socially harmonious policy is always feasible. Outcomes without social harmony can therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700861
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Creating illegal immigrants
Weiss, Avi; Hillman, Arye L.; Epstein, Gil S. - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 1, pp. 3-21
This paper considers the prospects for successful implementation by governments of guest-worker programs that are based on an intended temporary presence of foreign workers. A means of enforcement of temporary presence is a penalty imposed for overstaying the permissible time period. Employers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395969