%0 Report
        %A Deiana, Claudio
%A Giua, Ludovica
%A Nistico, Roberto
        %T Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15189
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15189
        %X 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.
        %K discrimination
%K formal employment
%K amnesty program
%K undocumented immigrants
%K segregation