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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border

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dc.creator Gathmann, Christina
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:09:28Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:09:28Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20239
dc.identifier ppn:378242717
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20239
dc.description This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on smuggling prices is small. Though enforcement has more than tripled over the past fifteen years, smuggling prices have increased by at most 30 percent. Unlike estimates from illegal drugs, the demand for border smugglers is however price elastic. We also show that illegal migrants have switched from heavily patrolled areas to more remote and dangerous crossing routes. These avoidance costs are in fact three times the direct costs of enforcement on smuggling prices.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 1004
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject K42
dc.subject J61
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject enforcement
dc.subject illegal migration
dc.subject Mexico
dc.subject Illegale Einwanderung
dc.subject Einwanderungsrecht
dc.subject Rechtsdurchsetzung
dc.subject Preis
dc.subject Kriminalitätsökonomik
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Grenzgebiet
dc.subject Mexiko
dc.subject Vereinigte Staaten
dc.title The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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