• DOI:10.1007/S00712-010-0139-Y
Corpus ID: 153804786

Illegal immigration in a heterogeneous labor market

@article{Palivos2010IllegalII,
  title={Illegal immigration in a heterogeneous labor market},
  author={T. Palivos and C. Yip},
  journal={Journal of Economics},
  year={2010},
  volume={101},
  pages={21-47}
}

T. Palivos, C. Yip

Published 2010

Economics

Journal of Economics

This paper examines the effects of illegal immigration in a neoclassical growth model with two groups of workers, skilled and unskilled. We show that although illegal immigration is a boon to a country as a whole, there are distributional effects, whose sign is in general ambiguous. This is because all sources of income of both groups are affected and some of these changes tend to move income in opposite directions. Nevertheless, calibration exercises show that the wealth distribution is likely… CONTINUE READING

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