Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201566 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 378
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
This paper measures the links between aid from 14 rich to 113 developing economies and bilateral asylum applications during years 1993 to 2013. Dynamic panel models and Sys-GMM are used. Results show that asylum applications are related to aid nonlinearly in the level of development of origin countries, in a U-shaped fashion, where only the downward segment proves to be robust to all specifications. Asylum inflows from poor countries are negatively, significantly and robustly associated with aid in the short run, with mixed evidence of more lasting effects, while inflows from less poor economies show a positive but weak relation with aid. Moreover, aid leads to negative cross-donor spillovers. Applications linearly decrease with humanitarian aid. Voluntary immigration is not linked to aid. Overall, the reduction in asylum inflows is stronger when aid disbursements are conditional on economic, institutional and political improvements in the recipient economy.
Subjects: 
foreign aid
asylum seekers and refugees
development
JEL: 
F35
F22
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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