TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Guichard, Lucas
AU  - Machado, Joël
        TI  - The Externalities of Immigration Policies on Migration Flows: The Case of an Asylum Policy
        PY  - 2024/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16935
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16935
        AB  - We analyze the externalities arising from a bilateral asylum policy - the list of safe origin countries - relying on a tractable model. Using self-collected monthly data, we estimate that including one origin country on the safe list of a given destination decreases asylum applications from that origin to that destination by 29%. We use a counterfactual policy simulation to quantify the spillover effects occurring across origin and destination countries. Individuals from targeted origin countries move to alternative destinations. Individuals from untargeted origins divert from alternative destinations. The magnitude of the externalities depends on the size of the affected flows.
        KW  - safe origin country
KW  - asylum policy
KW  - asylum seekers
KW  - migration
KW  - refugee
        ER  -