Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Paolo Pinotti 
Title: Immigration enforcement and crime
Abstract: Immigration enforcement has ambiguous implications for the crime rate of undocumented immigrants. On the one hand, expulsions reduce the pool of immigrants at risk of committing crimes, on the other they lower the opportunity cost of crime for those who are not expelled. We estimate the e?ect of expulsions on the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in Italy exploiting variation in enforcement toward immigrants of di?erent nationality, due to the existence of bilateral agreements for the control of illegal migration. We ?nd that stricter enforcement of migration policy reduces the crime rate of undocumented immigrants.
Classification-JEL: K37, K42
Keywords: immigration, enforcement, crime 
Length: 7 
Number: 1502
Creation-Date: 2015
File-URL: https://repec.unibocconi.it/baffic/baf/papers/cbafwp1502.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 228
Handle: RePEc:baf:cbafwp:cbafwp1502