Benefit and Cost of Visa relaxation -Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Visa waiver-

Tsuyoshi Goto and Nobuo Akai ()
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Nobuo Akai: Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University

No 17-10, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: In spite of a heated debate over immigration policies in the world, the effects of visa, which is one of the representative tool for immigration control, are uncertain for some aspects. This paper analyzes whether visa relaxation has impacts on both legal foreign visitors and illegally overstayed foreigners focusing on Japanese visa waiver program. The empirical analyses show that visa waiver will increase both legal travelers and illegally overstayed foreigners while it may have a bigger effect on legal visitors than overstayed foreigners.

Keywords: Visa; Immigration policy; Policy evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F68 H56 K37 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2017-04
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