Immigrant Earnings in the Italian Labour Market

Accetturo, Antonio; Infante, Luigi

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“…6 Drawing on several rounds of the ISMU survey, Accetturo and Infante (2010) confirm these findings in a multivariate regression analysis. Extensive empirical evidence on the wage gap suffered by illegal immigrants is available also for the US, see for instance Bratsberg et al (2002), Kossoudji and Cobb-Clark (2002) and Kaushal (2006).…”

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“…Alternatively, immigrants may decide to cross the border illegally. In this way, illegal immigrants (I) avoid the burden imposed by migration policy, but face the risk of being apprehended and deported back to their home 5 Using the ISMU data to estimate the determinants of immigrants' earnings in Italy, Accetturo and Infante (2010) examine the reliability of the information on legal status by comparing the results of the 2002 survey with the demands for amnesty presented during the same year, concluding that the extent of under-sampling of unauthorized immigrants and/or misreporting of legal status is modest.…”

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Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mastrobuoni

Pinotti

2011

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SummaryWe estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy five months before the enlargement allow us to compare the post-release criminal record of inmates from new EU member countries with a control group of pardoned inmates from candidate EU member countries. Difference-in-differences in the probability of re-arrest between the two groups before and after the enlargement show that obtaining legal status lowers the recidivism of economically motivated offenders, but only in areas that provide relatively better labor market opportunities to legal immigrants. We provide a search-theoretic model of criminal behavior that is consistent with these results. Keywords AbstractWe estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy five months before the enlargement allow us to compare the post-release criminal record of inmates from new EU member countries with a control group of pardoned inmates from candidate EU member countries. Difference-in-differences in the probability of re-arrest between the two groups before and after the enlargement show that obtaining legal status lowers the recidivism of economically motivated offenders, but only in areas that provide relatively better labor market opportunities to legal immigrants. We provide a search-theoretic model of criminal behavior that is consistent with these results.

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Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Mastrobuoni

Pinotti

2011

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“…At each location, interviewees are asked how often they visit any of the other meeting points, which allows ex-post selection probabilities to be computed into the sample. See Accetturo & Infante (2010) and Dustmann et al (2014) for a description of these data.…”

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Understanding the Role of Immigrants’ Legal Status: Evidence from Policy Experiments

Fasani¹

2015

CESifo Economic Studies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour. The main difficulties in this field are the scarcity of data and the identification challenge posed by endogenous selection into legal status. The vast majority of these articles have therefore used amnesty programs (or similar policy changes) to establish causal relationships. In this paper, we propose a first systematic review of the empirical literature for the US and Europe on the impact of legal status on different immigrants' outcomes. We then present some new evidence of the relationship between labour market outcomes and legal status in the Italian context. In our empirical analysis, we first provide some descriptive evidence on differences in the outcomes for groups with different residence statuses, and we then exploit a specific amnesty programme to produce causal estimates of the impact of legal status. Our results confirm previous findings in the literature and show that the design of the specific amnesty analysed matters in shaping its effects. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: F22, J61, K37

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“…Undocumented aliens have very weak bargaining power with respect to their employers as they cannot join a union and must work off the books. This implies that wage offers are usually quite low (Accetturo and Infante, 2010) and, therefore, they may be quite close to the reservation wages. Moreover, illegal aliens' incentives to work are particularly strong since their only chance of being regularised under one of the recurrent amnesties is strictly linked to evidence that they are employed on Italian soil.…”

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Skills or Culture? An Analysis of the Decision to Work by Immigrant Women in Italy

Accetturo

Infante

2011

SSRN Journal

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Immigrant Earnings in the Italian Labour Market

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Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Migration Restrictions and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Understanding the Role of Immigrants’ Legal Status: Evidence from Policy Experiments

Skills or Culture? An Analysis of the Decision to Work by Immigrant Women in Italy

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