State border corruption and illegal migration: A model

Lundgren, Ted and Lappo, Petr (2009): State border corruption and illegal migration: A model. Published in: Teoriya veroyatnostei, matematicheskaya statistika i ich prilozheniya. Sbornik nauchnych statei , Vol. 2, (2009): pp. 102-105.

Abstract

State border corruption is still a problem for Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. In a theoretical model, it is shown how a border guard authority should optimally allocate budgetary resources to oblasts in presence of corruption, so as to minimise the general average number of illegal migrants.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: corruption; border guard authority; illegal migration; illegal immigration; undocumented migration; border corruption; border guards; people smuggling; people smugglers; human smuggling; border region; state border corruption; border crossings; bribes; resource allocation
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F22 - International Migration; D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O15 - Human Resources ; Human Development ; Income Distribution ; Migration

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