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Immigrant’s legal status, permanence in the destination country and the distribution of consumption expenditure

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Matteo Barigozzi
Biagio Speciale

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This paper considers the distribution of consumption expenditures for a large sample of documented and undocumented immigrants in Italy. Using the one-sided and two-sided Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, we show that the distribution of consumption of immigrants with higher permanence in the host country first-order stochastically dominates the one of immigrants with lower permanence. These distributions are first-order stochastically dominated by the ones of natives with similar characteristics. Apart from differences in the first years since migration, undocumented immigrants show similar consumption distributions to the ones of documented immigrants. All results also hold when correcting for possible immigrants’ misreporting on their legal status.

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Paper provided by Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ecares in its series ECARES Working Papers with number 2009_019.

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Keywords: Distribution of consumption expenditures; immigrant’s legal status; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.;

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D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods

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