TY - JOUR
T1 - Foreign aid and illegal immigration
T2 - Comment
AU - Kahana, Nava
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Gaytan-Fregoso and Lahiri (2000) claim that foreign aid may increase the level of illegal immigration. This comment reconsiders their perverse findings under endogenous as well as exogenous income repatriation. Furthermore, modifying Gaytan-Fregoso and Lahiri's model, in which aid is allotted in a lump-sum fashion, it is suggested that the actual amount of foreign aid should depend on the source country's performance, i.e., on the number of illegal immigrants, since such a policy will further reduce the number of illegal immigrants.
AB - Gaytan-Fregoso and Lahiri (2000) claim that foreign aid may increase the level of illegal immigration. This comment reconsiders their perverse findings under endogenous as well as exogenous income repatriation. Furthermore, modifying Gaytan-Fregoso and Lahiri's model, in which aid is allotted in a lump-sum fashion, it is suggested that the actual amount of foreign aid should depend on the source country's performance, i.e., on the number of illegal immigrants, since such a policy will further reduce the number of illegal immigrants.
KW - Foreign aid
KW - Illegal immigration
KW - Income repatriation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67650065003&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1300/J500v05n04_03
DO - 10.1300/J500v05n04_03
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AN - SCOPUS:67650065003
SN - 1556-2948
VL - 5
SP - 49
EP - 57
JO - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
JF - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
IS - 4
ER -
