Illegal Migration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage

Gil Epstein and Heizler (Cohen), Odelia ()
Additional contact information
Heizler (Cohen), Odelia: Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo

No 2830, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the connection between illegal migration, minimum wages and enforcement policy. We first explore the employers’ decision regarding the employment of illegal migrants in the presence of an effective minimum wage. We show that the employers’ decision depends on the wage gap between those of the legal and illegal workers and on the penalty for employing illegal workers. We consider the effects a change in the minimum wage has on the employment of illegal immigrants and local workers. We conclude by considering the optimal migration policy taking into consideration social welfare issues.

Keywords: minimum wage; migration policy; illegal immigration; interest groups (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 F22 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2007-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-mac and nep-mig
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)

Published - published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 197-224

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp2830.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Chapter: Illegal migration, enforcement, and minimum wage (2008)
Working Paper: Illegal Migration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage (2007)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp2830

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().