Illegal to punish or punish the illegals: Which way should Ukraine and Moldova choose?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Lundgren, Ted
- Source
- Subject
- jel:O17
jel:O15
illegal migration
illegal immigration
irregular migration
undocumented migration
optimal punishments
punishments
Moldova
Ukraine
people smuggling
human smuggling
international migration
people smugglers
border control
punishment schemes
WNIS
jel:F22
- Language
A government seeks to minimise the maximum expected utility of migrants and smugglers, but has to do this under constraints. It is argued that a vote maximising government should choose policies based on the relative weight of the introduced lobby utility function, which acts as a constraint. The model allows for calculation of simplified but optimal punishments, however this would require information about country-specific parameters. The model setting assumes that there is almost perfect competition between the facilitators (people smugglers).