Irregular Immigration

An Economic Analysis of Policies in the EU

Bibliographic Data

ID24035822
AuthorsSteffen Minter (corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume33
Pages199
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueIrregular Immigration (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMohr Siebeck (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1628/978-3-16-152951-1
OpenAlexW612477063
Open LibraryOL46096499M, OL30829169M
ISBN9783161529511, 9783161529191
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Irregular immigration is at the forefront of the political and public debate in the European Union. Images of desperate people arriving at the southern shores of the EU regularly dominate the media coverage. In this book, Steffen Minter focuses on the coordination problems between EU Member States in dealing with immigrants and refugees entering the EU. The author demonstrates that the enforcement of the external EU border constitutes a public good as long as irregular immigrants have the possibility to move on between member states once they have entered EU territory. In this scenario he analyzes the interaction between border enforcement and immigration amnesties from an economic point of view. Furthermore, he introduces a mechanism to implement financial burden sharing between Member States, so that an efficient level of border enforcement can be achieved.

Development economics · Economic system · Economics · European integration · Immigration · Mechanism Design · Political science · Public economics · Economic Order, Economic Policy · Public Finance · Labour Market and Migration · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Regional Development and Policy · Economic policy · emigration and immigration · Europe · European union countries · Government policy · Human rights · Illegal aliens · Illegal immigration · Immigrants · Noncitizens · Press coverage · Refugees · Social aspects

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