The Global Welfare Effects of Illegal Immigration

Yoshida, Chisato

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“…If this effect is substantial, the host country's national income might increase. Our welfare results, derived from (13), (14) and (15) are similar to those of Yoshida (1993), who does not analyse the effects of minimum wage legislation.…”

Section: Welfare Analysissupporting

confidence: 77%

“…Subsequently, Ethier, Bond and Chen (1987) studied the economic effects of illegal migration in the context of Ramaswami's (1968) two‐country, two‐factor, one‐good model under the assumption of illegal labour movement. Bond and Chen's work was followed by the work of Yoshida (1993, 1996), who focused on welfare analysis, and subsequently by Hiraiwa and Tawada (2003), who examined the effect on Bond and Chen's results of technological differences between countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The economic effects of illegal migration under the minimum wage policy of a source country

Sun¹,

Tawada²

2007

Papers in Regional Science

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This research note extends Bond and Chen's analysis of illegal migration by assuming that the source country is a developing country in which there is a minimum wage policy. We examine how the minimum wage of the source country and enforcement by the host affect factor prices, migration, unemployment and economic welfare. We find that the enforcement effect is clear and intuitive, but the qualitative effect of the minimum wage depends on the wage elasticity of employment in the source country. Copyright (c) 2007 the author(s). Journal compilation (c) 2007 RSAI.

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Section: Welfare Analysissupporting

confidence: 77%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The economic effects of illegal migration under the minimum wage policy of a source country

Sun¹,

Tawada²

2007

Papers in Regional Science

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“…legal immigrants from the same country, because they are less likely to be discriminated by the employer who might fear to hire illegal immigrants. Those ideas have been extended by Bond and Chen (1987), Djajic (1987) and Yoshida (1996).…”

Section: Immigrants and The Informal Economymentioning

confidence: 97%

A Survey of the Economics of Illegal Migration

Jahn¹,

Straubhaar²

1998

South European Society and Politics

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“…Thus, not surprisingly, the debate on the immigration policies in OECD countries has turned its attention towards illegal migrants, as can be seen from several recent publications, in particular by OECD consultants (Bratsberg, 1995, Yoshida, 1996, Djajic,1997, Borowski and Yanay, 1997, Jahn and Straubhaar, 1998, Martin, 1998, Robin and Barros, 1999, OECD, 1999, Garson 2000, and Tapinos, 2000.…”

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Rational Migration Policy Should Tolerate Non‐zero Illegal Migration Flows: Lessons from Modelling the Market for Illegal Migration

Entorf

2002

International Migration

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The Global Welfare Effects of Illegal Immigration

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The economic effects of illegal migration under the minimum wage policy of a source country

The economic effects of illegal migration under the minimum wage policy of a source country

A Survey of the Economics of Illegal Migration

Rational Migration Policy Should Tolerate Non‐zero Illegal Migration Flows: Lessons from Modelling the Market for Illegal Migration

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