A Matching Model of the Market for Migrant Smuggling Services

40 Pages Posted: 3 Mar 2020

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Claire Naiditch

CNRS - Lille Economics & Managment - UMR 9221; University of Lille; University of Lille I

Radu Vranceanu

ESSEC Business School; University of Cergy-Pontoise - THEMA

Date Written: January 10, 2020

Abstract

The important flows of irregular migration could not exist without the emergence of a criminal market for smuggling services. A matching model à la Pissarides (2000) provides a well-suited framework to analyze such a flow market with significant trade frictions. Our analysis considers the competitive segment of this underground market in which small-business smugglers can freely enter. The model allows us to determine the equilibrium number of smugglers, the matching probability, the number of successful irregular migrants and, as an original concept, the equilibrium migrant welfare. Changes in parameters can be related to the various policies implemented by destination countries to cut down irregular migration.

Keywords: Smuggling, Irregular migration, Matching model, Migrant welfare

JEL Classification: F22, O15, J46

Suggested Citation

Naiditch, Claire and Vranceanu, Radu, A Matching Model of the Market for Migrant Smuggling Services (January 10, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3530001 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3530001

Claire Naiditch (Contact Author)

CNRS - Lille Economics & Managment - UMR 9221 ( email )

Lille
France

University of Lille ( email )

Cité Scientifique
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, 59650
France

University of Lille I ( email )

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France

Radu Vranceanu

ESSEC Business School ( email )

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France

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University of Cergy-Pontoise - THEMA ( email )

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France

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