Auriol, Emmanuelle, Mesnard, Alice
and Perrault, Tiffanie
(2023)
Temporary Foreign Work Permits: Honing the Tools to Defeat Human Smuggling.
TSE Working Paper, n. 23-1470, Toulouse
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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.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Language: | English |
Date: | September 2023 |
Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | immigration, human smuggling, market structure, legalization |
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 Capitole |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2023 09:23 |
Last Modified: | 05 Apr 2024 08:11 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:128481 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/48232 |