Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers

Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua and Roberto Nisticò ()
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Claudio Deiana: University of Cagliari and University of Essex

No 480, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long- term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative sample of immigrant households to estimate the effect of regularization in the long run. Immigrants who were not eligible for the amnesty have a 14% lower probability of working in the formal sector a decade later, are subject to more severe ethnic segregation on the job and display less linguistic assimilation than their regularized counterparts.

Keywords: Undocumented immigrants; Amnesty program; Formal employment; Discrimination; Segregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 K37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Working Paper: Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers (2022)
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