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The demand for illegal migration and market outcomes

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  1. See MPI Staff: U.S. in Focus, Migration Policy Institute, 2002, http: //www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/ (3 January 2004).

  2. Friedrich Schneider: Der Umfang der Schattenwirtschaft des Jahres 2003 in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz — Weiteres Anwachsen der Schattenwirtschaft, 2003.

  3. MPI Staff, op. cit. U.S. in Focus, Migration Policy Institute, 2002, http: //www.migrationiformation.org/USfocus/(3 January 2004).

  4. Cf., for instance, Susanne Meyer: Sozialausgaben in OECD-Staaten: Ein Pull-Effekt der Migration?, Darmstadt Discussion Paper in Economics No. 124, Darmstadt 2003.

  5. Horst Entorf and Claus Larsen: Crime and Immigration in Denmark and Germany, in: Torben Tranaes, Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), Title tba (book on living conditions of immigrants in Denmark and Germany), 2004, forthcoming.

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  8. Cf. Susanne Meyer, op. cit. Sozialausgaben in OECD-Staaten: Ein Pull-Effekt der Migration?, Darmstadt Discussion Paper in Economics No. 124, Darmstadt 2003.

  9. For all the numbers quoted cf. Friedrich Schneider, op. cit. Der Umfang der Schattenwirtschaft des Jahres 2003 in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz — Weiteres Anwachsen der Schattenwirtschaft, 2003.

  10. Schneider calculates current figures (ibid.) Schneider and Enste present a longrun perspective on a smaller sample: Friedrich Schneider, Dominik H. Enste: Shadow Economies: Size, Causes, and Consequences, in: Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 38, March 2000, pp. 77–114, here p. 81.

  11. A comprehensive survey is given in Friedrich Schneider, Dominik H. Enste, ibid. Shadow Economies: Size, Causes, and Consequences, in: Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 38, March 2000, pp. 77–114, here p. 81., Section 3 (“The Main Causes of the Increase”).

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  13. Similar figures are calculated by Borjas for the US labour market. George J. Borjas: The Labor Demand Curve is downward sloping: Reexaming the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market, in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2003, pp. 1335–1374.

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  16. Cf. Klaus F. Zimmermann: Tackling the European Migration Problem, in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1995, pp. 45–62 and the references therein.

  17. Cf. Thomas K. Bauer, Magnus Lofstom, Klaus F. Zimmermann: Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries, IZA Discussion Paper No. 187, 2000. For the United States the results are similar. Cf. Kenneth F. Scheve, Matthew J. Slaughter: Labor Market Competition and Individual Preferences over Immigration Policy, in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 83, No. 1, February 2001, pp. 133–145.

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  1. Insitute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Darmstadt University of Technology, Bonn, Germany

    Horst Entorf (Professor of Economics) & Jochen Moebert (Researcher)

  2. Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany

    Horst Entorf (Professor of Economics)

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Entorf, H., Moebert, J. The demand for illegal migration and market outcomes. Intereconomics 39, 7–10 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03032199

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