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datestamp: 2023-09-25 09:23:55
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type: monograph
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creators_name: Auriol, Emmanuelle
creators_name: Mesnard, Alice
creators_name: Perrault, Tiffanie
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title: Temporary Foreign Work Permits: Honing the Tools to Defeat Human Smuggling
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abstract: We study how temporary visa schemes can be designed to drive smugglers out of business while meeting labor market needs in host countries. After discussing their compatibility with a large range of policy objectives, we show how combining internal and external controls with a regulated market for temporary visas alleviates the policy trade-off between migration control and ending human smuggling. We use information on irregular migration from Senegal to Spain and the Democratic Republic of Congo to South Africa to calibrate the “eviction” prices of visas for these two routes, which are set to throttle smuggling activities. Our results highlight important constraints for governments seeking to prevent temporary workers from overstaying, especially on south-north routes such as Senegal to Spain. They suggest combining a regulated market for visas with tighter sanctions against employers of undocumented workers as a way forward.
date: 2023-09
date_type: published
publisher: TSE Working Paper
official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/128481
faculty: tse
divisions: tse
keywords: immigration
keywords: human smuggling
keywords: market structure
keywords: legalization
language: en
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subjectsJEL: JEL_F22
subjectsJEL: JEL_I18
subjectsJEL: JEL_L51
subjectsJEL: JEL_O15
view_date_year: 2023
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
series: TSE Working Paper
volume: 23-1470
place_of_pub: Toulouse
pages: 66
institution: Université Toulouse Capitole
department: Toulouse School of Economics
book_title: TSE Working Paper
oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:128481
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citation:   Auriol, Emmanuelle <https://www.idref.fr/076085341>, Mesnard, Alice <https://www.idref.fr/185328040> and Perrault, Tiffanie  (2023) Temporary Foreign Work Permits: Honing the Tools to Defeat Human Smuggling.  TSE Working Paper, n. 23-1470, Toulouse     
document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/48232/1/wp_tse_1470.pdf