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, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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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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limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees … influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … where refugees are being accommodated. Refugee camps are geographically concentrated near the Syrian border, which enables …
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Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized … experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tests the role …
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This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I … examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention … the political economy of restrictive asylum policies, especially in EU countries, as well as the effectiveness of those …
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This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … as in levels and types of inward migration. Overall, the British public appear to have become less tolerant towards … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …
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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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openings. We also find that the structure of the local economy affected the refugees’ probability of obtaining employment …This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … regressions, estimates the effect of individual and human capital characteristics, internal migration, municipality, local labour …
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Canada admits refugees on the basis of compassion and not economic criteria. It is however, important to document the … are that employed Canadian refugees earn an amount equal to that earned by their family class reference group circa 1980 …-2001. However, the incidence of social assistance attachment for refugees is substantial and for those refugees who receive any …
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benchmark, the ex-ante and ex-post vulnerable Roma people, and the ex-ante equal but ex-post vulnerable refugees and internally …
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