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Die anhaltenden Asyl- und Flüchtlingsströme und der Antritt der neuen Europäischen Kommission am 1. November 2014 bieten Anlass für eine Debatte über ein Umdenken in der deutschen und europäischen Zuwanderungspolitik. Eine Abkehr vom „Festungsdenken“ ist dringend geboten. Die bisherige...
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Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...
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homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera – a region in northwestern Tanzania – received more than 500,000 refugees … intensity. I exploit this variation to investigate the short and long run causal effects of hosting refugees on the outcomes of …-cohort variation and find that childhood exposure to this massive arrival of refugees reduced height in early adulthood by 1.8 cm (1 …
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Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...
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of international (e.g., climate change) refugees, and an extension of the US diversity lottery to a larger set of host …
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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
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where refugees are being accommodated. Refugee camps are geographically concentrated near the Syrian border, which enables … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees … evidence of refugees crowding out natives in local labor markets. …
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examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention … policies in deterring asylum seekers. The paper concludes with an outline of the assimilation of refugees in host country …
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This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …
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This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … market and economic sector factors on the refugees’ odds of being employed. The local variations of refugees’ integration … and employment rates, a proxy for the local supply of jobs, significantly affected the individual refugees’ chances to …
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