Immigration policy and counterterrorism

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - St. Louis; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.12.013
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 112-123
• 关键词: Transnational terrorism; immigration; International externalities; Counterterrorism policy; Developing country

摘要

In a developing country, terrorists recruit and allocate their capital, skilled labor, and unskilled labor between domestic and foreign targets. Domestic targets require less skilled labor than foreign targets. Under various strategic scenarios, we show how countermeasures against the different terrorist inputs alter the amount and mix of targets, as well as how skilled and unskilled immigration quotas by a targeted foreign country affect this mix of attacks. We find that increases in skilled labor quotas generally reduce terrorist attacks in the foreign country, especially when the terrorists reside in a skill-scarce country. A number of different strategic scenarios, including leader-follower, are investigated. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.