Paper Title
Economic Incentives and Illegal Immigration-The Perspective of Smuggling

Abstract
This paper develops the role of economic incentives, particularly the relationship between employment opportunities and people smuggling, using data from the South West border in US from the period between 1980 and 2012. The estimation is controlled for variations between states and trends over time. The results suggest the potentially stronger effect of the wage on smuggling, while also indicating the negative relationship between unemployment rates and rates of smuggling in South West of the US. The present analysis partly supports the conclusions of Machin and Meghir (2000), treating the smuggling as crime. Keywords- Aggregation, Employment Opportunities, People Smuggling, Crime, Ehrlich Model, Fixed-Effect JEL classification: K42; D12; C33