Are Immigration Regularization Programs a Pull Factor? Evidence for OECD Countries

Paúl Elguezabal () and Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso ()
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Paúl Elguezabal: University of Goettingen
Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso: University of Goettingen & University of Goettingen
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No 2024.14, Working Papers from International Network for Economic Research - INFER

Abstract: This paper evaluates the impact of regularisation programs on immigration flows using a newly collected dataset and panel-data techniques applied to gravity models. The main novelty is twofold. First to present the dataset with detailed information on regularisation policies in OECD countries, including those implemented over the period from 1944 to 2023 and specifying the timeframe of implementation and the origin nationalities targeted. And second, to estimate the impact with a gravity model of bilateral migration applying a Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood estimator for an unbalanced panel of 193 origins and 32 OECD destinations for 199-2022. The main results indicate that the regularisation impact is very heterogeneous across geographical regions of incoming migrants and across groups of countries depending on their level of development. In particular, the results indicate that regularisation programs are a pull factor for lower-income OECD destinations.

Keywords: Migration; regularisation; policy evaluation; income and regional heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2024
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