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Auriol, Emmanuelle
and Mesnard, Alice
(2016)
Sale of visas : a smuggler's final song?
TSE Working Paper, n. 16-645, Toulouse
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Abstract
Is there a way of eliminating human smuggling? We set up a model to simultaneously determine the provision of human smuggling services and the demand from would-be migrants. A visa-selling policy may be successful at eliminating smugglers by eroding their profits but it also increases immigration. In contrast, repression decreases migration but fuels cartelized smugglers. To overcome this trade-off we show that legalisation through selling visas in combination with repression can be used to weaken human smuggling while controlling migration flows. Our results highlight the complementarities between repression and selling visas and call into question current policies.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | May 2016 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Migration, human smuggling, market structure, legalisation |
| JEL Classification: | F22 - International Migration I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health L51 - Economics of Regulation O15 - Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 31 May 2016 13:03 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2021 15:53 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:30469 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21960 |
