• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers
  • Contributor: Deiana, Claudio [Author]; Giua, Ludovica [Author]; Nistico, Roberto [Author]
  • Published: Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2022
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: formal employment ; J61 ; amnesty program ; segregation ; discrimination ; undocumented immigrants ; K37 ; J15
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  • Description: 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.
  • Access State: Open Access