Deiana, Maheshr,and Mastrobuoniand have recently published an analysis of the effects of Search and Rescue operations on migration from Africa to Europe.Nearly half a century ago, Sam Peltzman showed that, because mandatory seat-belts made driving safer, drivers tended to drive more recklessly, partially offsetting the increased safety. Similar effects occurred in the search and rescue…
The Peltzman Effect at Sea
The Peltzman Effect at Sea
04 May 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, Economics of international refugee law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: economics of migration, offsetting behavior, unintended consequences
Alan Manning: “Monopsony and the wage effects of migration”
08 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of education, human capital, international economics, labour economics, labour supply Tags: economics of migration, monopsony
Interesting OIA reply on Boochani
19 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, International law, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of migration
Migrants as % of populations of USA, Canada, Western European countries, Australia & New Zealand, 1990 and 2015
15 May 2016 1 Comment
in population economics Tags: economics of migration
Source: United Nations Population Division | Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 Revision,
@Greens @sarahinthesen8’s solution to boat people drowning
04 Apr 2016 1 Comment
in economics, Economics of international refugee law, international economics Tags: boat people, economics of migration, refugees
About 1200 people drowned under Labour’s boat people policies. That would have put the percentage at risk of death in the low single digits. Taking a boat to Europe is very dangerous in comparison.
Source: Another way for refugees | Australian Greens.
Arriving by boat in Australia does not increase the size of the refugee quota. It just changes who gets to the head of the queue and how many died trying to get to the head of the queue.
Source: Kiwiblog.
There is nothing compassionate about rewarding people for risking their lives. The chances of dying while attempting to come to Australia by boat are about 2%.
The recent experience in Europe confirms that just letting large numbers of refugees come to your country hardens the attitude of the majority of voters in that country to admitting refugees in general, much less more than their current quota.
Countries with the most citizens living abroad
14 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: economics of migration
Refugee populations by country of asylum – UK, USA, France and Germany since 1960
03 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in International law Tags: British politics, economics of migration, refugees
I had to use two charts because Germany hosted so many refugees after in the early 1990s that it made the reading the remaining data not possible because of the scale of the axis.
UNHCR – UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database.
@nzlabour @greencatherine @johnkeymp @actparty Australia and New Zealand country of asylum numbers since 1965
10 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in Economics of international refugee law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand Tags: Australia, economics of migration, refugees
Australia and New Zealand at times has taken in a great many refugees from abroad according to the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees data. Oddly enough these bursts of generosity coincided with a Liberal Country party government in Australia and National Party governments in New Zealand. The Left of New Zealand politics was too busy fighting to be nuclear free to make New Zealand a place of refuge for the victims of oppression when they had their hands on the wheels of power.
Source: UNHCR – UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database.
Because Australia took in so many hundreds of thousands of refugees, it is difficult to read the New Zealand data so I have reproduced the New Zealand data on refugees as a separate graph.
Source: UNHCR – UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database.
At times of crisis such as after the Vietnam War and the chaos in the Balkans, New Zealand has taken in a great many refugees – many times its current generosity.
@jamespshaw @nzlabour @actparty inflow of asylum seekers into Australia and New Zealand since 1987
08 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: asylum seekers, Australia, economics of migration, refugees
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat; Dataset: International Migration Database.
@NZNationalParty @nzlabour @NZGreens inflow of asylum seekers into #UK #Canada, #Australia and #NewZealand since 1980
08 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, Economics of international refugee law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, population economics Tags: Australia, British politics, economics of migration, refugees
New Zealand’s intake of asylum seekers has been embarrassingly low. The left-wing parties in New Zealand should be ashamed of themselves given the way they wear their international consciences on their sleeves about New Zealand being above it all morally, nuclear free, and can lecture the rest about war, peace and compassion from on high.
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat; Dataset: International Migration Database.
The UK absorbed an immense number of asylum seekers in the 1990 as did Canada. The data stops in 2013.
The 1858 Map of World Migration
16 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply Tags: Australia, economics of migration
Migrants fleeing Europe..
The 1858 Map of World Migration bit.ly/1NjTMEb http://t.co/ZOK7UA6SdB—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) September 10, 2015
Myth and reality about the countries hosting the most Middle-Eastern refugees
12 Sep 2015 1 Comment
in Economics of international refugee law Tags: economics of migration, economics of refugees, Middle-East politics
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/640518268579614720/photo/1
Where are the World's Refugees?
Not in the West http://t.co/MsfxuP9ZRV—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 10, 2015
How Senator Bilyk’s Dad found paradise in Australia @Catbilyk
11 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - Australia, war and peace Tags: Australia, economics of migration, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, World War II
An old Uni mate’s dad was rounded up by the Nazis in the Polish Ukraine in 1941 and carted off as a slave in factories in Germany. He survived the war. He ended up in a refugee camp. He met and married a Dutch lass.
He did not want to go back to the Ukraine because that part of the Ukraine was now Russian under Stalin. That part of the Ukraine was Polish before the war.
Soviet post-war expansion resulted in border changes, the creation of a Communist Bloc & the start of the Cold War. http://t.co/0Os3EPp6Th—
History Facts 247 (@historyfacts247) August 17, 2015
Australia was the first country to accept them as refugees. He raised a family in Tasmania, working in a factory to support them.
I knew one of his two sons who became economists both at the University of Tasmania and in Canberra. One of his daughter’s was elected to the Australian Senate in the 2007 general election.
After such a rough start in life, my old mate’s dad must regard Australia as paradise for him, his wife and their family.
The success of Indian migrants
27 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
Indians have become an extraordinarily successful minority in America. A burgeoning new elite econ.st/1cgD0GN http://t.co/XxwcclHpDJ—
The Economist (@EconEconomics) May 26, 2015
The Migration of Modern Humans out of Africa
25 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in economic history Tags: economics of migration, evolution
Out of Africa: The Migration of Anatomically Modern Humans in 1 beautiful map
bit.ly/1zpLAaA http://t.co/0Kcy7nC3KR—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 08, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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