Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122110 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Working Paper No. 07/2014
Publisher: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Abstract: 
This paper develops a model of optimizing behavior of asylum seekers whose objective is to reach an advanced country. Their personal characteristics and the challenges anticipated along the way determine whether they try to reach the ultimate destination with the aid of human smugglers or by applying for resettlement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In the current policy environment, individuals who are relatively young, skilled, wealthy, and have access to credit from the family network are found to have a strong incentive to choose the undocumented migration option.
Subjects: 
asylum seekers
illegal immigration
JEL: 
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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