Dynamics of mass migration
- Author(s)
- Alexandra Brausmann, Slobodan Djajic
- Abstract
Armed conflicts, natural disasters, environmental degradation, or other crises can trigger massive population movements that present a serious challenge for the destination countries. We provide a theoretical analysis of the dynamics of population movements and their interaction with border-control policy of destination authorities. Our model exhibits a trade-off between the speed of the border-control response and the total cost of bringing immigration flows back to a target level. Simulations of the model, based on the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis, also highlight the implications of criminalizing human-smuggling activity and the influence of a diaspora on the dynamics of migration.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Economics
- External organisation(s)
- Hochschulinstitut für internationale Studien und Entwicklung (IHEID)
- Journal
- Review of International Economics
- Volume
- 30
- Pages
- 1414-1431
- No. of pages
- 18
- ISSN
- 0965-7576
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12596
- Publication date
- 11-2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 502046 Economic policy
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development, Development
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/dynamics-of-mass-migration(7459296c-4e99-4b08-b915-4edd33f44105).html