The Why, When and How of Immigration Amnesties
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- Gil Epstein & Avi Weiss, 2011. "The why, when, and how of immigration amnesties," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 24(1), pages 285-316, January.
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Keywords
Amnesty; Immigration; Illegal Immigration; Border Controls; Internal Controls;JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
- H59 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2009-09-19 (All new papers)
- NEP-MIG-2009-09-19 (Economics of Human Migration)
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