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Crime and the Mariel Boatlift
Billy, Alexander; Packard, Michael - 2021
Our paper describes crime effects attributable to the Mariel Boatlift, the 1980 Cuban refugee crisis that increased …-intervention crime patterns, we find strong evidence the phenomenon comparatively increased property crime and murder rates; we also … document weaker but suggestive relative growth in per capita violent crime linked with the influx of Cubans. Compositional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211781
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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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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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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its … this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries' comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291544
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336047
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Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442315
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307974
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernandez-Huertas Moraga, Jesus; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its … this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries' comparative …-reduction visa program adapted from the US green card lottery. -- immigration ; immigration policy ; tradable quotas ; refugees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691624
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009298511