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1 results foundAuthor: Monras, Joan Title: Understanding the Effects of Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants Summary: Many countries host large numbers of undocumented immigrants. By many accounts, the United States leads this ranking. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2010 there were as many as 11 million unauthorized immigrants on American soil, representing 26 percent of all immigrants. These large numbers of undocumented immigrants have led recent U.S. administrations, not without controversy, to consider either legalizing these immigrants or deporting many of them to their countries of origin. The United States is not alone in hosting undocumented immigrants. Migration Watch UK estimated the undocumented immigrant population in the United Kingdom to be 1.1 million in 2010, representing more than 13 percent of all immigrants in the country. A European Commission research project on undocumented migration, the Clandestino Project, estimated that, in 2008, there were between 1.9 and 3.8 million undocumented immigrants in the EU27, representing between 7 percent and 13 percent of the total immigrant population. In the early 2000s, Spain experienced a large immigration boom. From 1995 to 2004, the share of immigrants in the working-age population increased from less than 2 percent to around 10 percent. Many of these newly arrived immigrants lacked work permits. According to some accounts, as many as 1 million immigrants-in a country of around 43 million inhabitants-were undocumented by 2004. Despite the prominence of undocumented migration in public debates, we know relatively little about the effect of legalizing the work status of immigrants. Most academic research has focused on understanding how legal status affects immigrants themselves. We know from this work that gaining legal status is beneficial to immigrant workers in a number of ways. However, we still know relatively little about how the mass legalization of immigrants affects the overall host economy. Our research addresses this gap using a unique natural experiment. Details: Washington, DC: CATO Institute, 2018. 2p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 14, 2019 at: https://www.cato.org/publications/research-briefs-economic-policy/understanding-effects-legalizing-undocumented Year: 2018 Country: International URL: https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/research-brief-121.pdf Shelf Number: 154153 Keywords: CATO Institute Immigrants Immigration Legalization Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants Undocumented Migration |