TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Deiana, Claudio
AU  - Giua, Ludovica
AU  - Nistico, Roberto
        TI  - Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers
        PY  - 2022/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15189
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15189
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - discrimination
KW  - formal employment
KW  - amnesty program
KW  - undocumented immigrants
KW  - segregation
        ER  -