Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/287383 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Open Economies Review [ISSN:] 1573-708X [Volume:] 32 [Issue:] 5 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 829-865
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
This paper empirically investigates the effects of governance quality on the number of African asylum seekers in Europe over the period 1996–2018 and evaluates the extent to which official development aid acts as a catalyst. With this purpose in mind, different gravity model specifications and estimation approaches have been employed. The obtained results suggest that the asylum flows are strongly determined by governance quality in the country of origin and that this effect does depend on the amount of foreign aid received from developed countries. Moreover, it is also found that development aid is only effective in reducing asylum applications coming from countries with good governance. Moreover, we find no differences in the estimated elasticity of foreign aid on asylum claims for the beneficiaries of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF) for Africa, the main aim of which has been to improve living conditions of potential migrants in their countries of origin.
Subjects: 
Asylum seekers
ODA
Africa
European Union
Governance
Gravity model
JEL: 
F35
O11
9
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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