Foreign Aid and responsiveness of bilateral refugee inflows

Marina Murat ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alessia Russo, Graziella Bertocchi (), Arcangelo Dimico and Francesco Lancia

Center for Economic Research (RECent) from University of Modena and Reggio E., Dept. of Economics "Marco Biagi"

Abstract: This paper tests the effects of Aid from 14 OECD donor economies on bilateral asylum seeker inflows from 113 developing countries during 1993-2013. Results are that Aid affects asylum seeker inflows nonlinearly in the pc income of the origin country, in a ‘U’ shaped fashion, with a turning point at 9,150 pcGDP, PPP2011$. Aid has also cross-donor negative spillovers and regional effects. Overall, deterring effects concern especially Sub Saharan countries. Moreover, Aid does not influence bilateral voluntary migration. Making Aid transfers conditional on improvements in political and economic institutions in recipient countries can strengthen their effects on asylum seeker inflows.

Keywords: foreign Aid; asylum seekers and refugees; Aid policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F35 I38 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages 29
Date: 2017-05
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