Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21048 
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Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 204
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in certain professions and may themselves employ other illegal immigrants. An economy is evolving whose sole purpose is the provision of services by illegal immigrants for legal immigrants.
Subjects: 
Illegal migration
legal migration
guest workers
JEL: 
K42
P16
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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