Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants

Gil Epstein

No 204, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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 certain professions and may themselves employ other illegal immigrants. An economy is evolving whose sole purpose is the provision of services by illegal immigrants for legal immigrants.

Keywords: legal migration; Illegal migration; guest workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 K42 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2000-10
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Published - published in: Review of Development Economics, 2003, 7 (1), 30-43

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