Do Processing Times Affect the Distribution of Asylum Seekers across Europe?

Simone Bertoli, Herbert Brücker () and Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Additional contact information
Herbert Brücker: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg

No 13018, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: More than 3 million asylum seekers arrived into Europe between 2014 and 2016, and we analyze the role of destination-specific policy measures in shaping their location choices. We bring to the data a gravity equation that reflects the uncertainty that asylum seekers face, concerning the chances of obtaining refugee protection, the processing time and the risk of repatriation. These factors shaped the distribution of asylum seekers, and produced heterogeneous effects across different origin countries. German efforts to expand their processing capacity produced a significant increase in applications from origins with high recognition rates, which were mostly diverted away from Sweden.

Keywords: migration; gravity equations; processing time; recognition rate; refugees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 K37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2020-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-law and nep-mig
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (13)

Published - revised version published as 'Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics , 2022, 93, 103771

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp13018.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp13018

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().