Article: Studies in the area of development economics reported from La Sapienza University.(Report)

"In this paper we show that highly skilled clandestine migrants are more likely to return home than migrants with low or no skills when illegality causes ''skill waste'', i.e. when illegality reduces the rate of return of individual capabilities (i.e. skills and human capital) in the country of destination. In a simple life-cycle framework, illegality is modeled as a tax on skills that reduces the opportunity cost of returning home particularly for the highly skilled," investigators in Rome, Italy report.

"This proposition is tested on a sample of apprehended immigrants that unlawfully crossed the Italian borders in 2003. The estimation confirms that the ...

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