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| dc.title | Undocumented Immigration, Regularization and Citizenship in the Southern Cone |
| dc.contributor.author | Ronconi, Lucas |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Migration Unit |
| dc.coverage | Peru |
| dc.coverage | Argentina |
| dc.coverage | Bolivia |
| dc.coverage | Paraguay |
| dc.coverage | South America |
| dc.coverage | Southern Cone |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-14T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2020-08-01T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | In 2004 the Argentine government established that immigration is a human right and launched a large regularization program that benefit almost 0.5 million people, mostly from neighboring countries, or 29% of the immigrant population. Despite a substantial normative and legal literature praising the in-form content of the legislation, little empirical research assesses its real effects. This paper exploits variation in treatment intensity across several dimensions and finds mixed results. The regularization program positively correlates with higher access to non-contributory pensions; but did not increase access to education and formal jobs. Moreover, the regularization program positively correlates with a higher propensity to pay a simplified self-employed tax, but also with a higher propensity to illegally rent and occupy land in shantytowns. Transforming low-educated irregular immigrants into citizens who have full access to their rights, and comply with their civic duties, requires more than a well-intentioned legislation. |
| dc.format.extent | 41 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002755 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Undocumented-Immigration-Regularization-and-Citizenship-in-the-Southern-Cone.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Tax Compliance |
| dc.subject | Pension Systems |
| dc.subject | Formal Labor |
| dc.subject | Migration and Migrant |
| dc.subject.jelcode | K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law |
| dc.subject.jelcode | O15 - Human Resources • Human Development • Income Distribution • Migration |
| dc.subject.jelcode | K37 - Immigration Law |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility • Immigrant Workers |
| dc.subject.keywords | Argentina;Migration;Tax evasion;Irregular;Shantytown |
| dc.type | Discussion Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | IDB-DP-00813 |
| idb.operation | RG-T3473 |