LdA WP no. 367, published as “Devillanova, C., Fasani, F., & Frattini, T. (2018). Employment of undocumented immigrants and the prospect of legal status: Evidence from an amnesty program. ILR Review, 71(4), 853–881″.
Abstract:
This article estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. The identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by an Italian amnesty program that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on date of arrival. The authors find that immigrants who are potentially eligible for legal status under the amnesty program have a significantly higher probability of being employed relative to undocumented immigrants who are not eligible. The size of the estimated effect is equivalent to about half the increase in employment that undocumented immigrants in our sample normally experience during their first year in Italy. These findings are robust to several checks and falsification exercises.
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Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan. Previously, he was a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He is Research Affiliate of CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and Research Fellow of CReAM (Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration) and IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor; Bonn). He received a PhD in Economics from University College London in 2011. His main research interests are Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, and economic analysis of migration and crime.
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Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan. He is also a Research Fellow CEPR, at CReAM, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London (UCL), at Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano (LdA) and at IZA. He received his PhD in Economics from University College London in 2010. His main research interests are in Applied Microeconomics, Labour Economics and the Economics of Migration. His work has been published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of the European Eocnomic Association, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Geography, and Economic Policy among others.
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