Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263405 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15189
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
undocumented immigrants
amnesty program
formal employment
discrimination
segregation
JEL: 
J15
J61
K37
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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