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The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …, particularly in Europe. Finally, we ask whether greater international coordination could produce better outcomes for refugee …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves …
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We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on … a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence or refugees fleeing wars in Ukraine or African countries. We also … employ a novel measure, the share donated in cash. While donations indicated less support for African and Ukrainian refugees …
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Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration …
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The paper compares migration policy and welfare state generosity between America and Europe. There is more selective … may explain in part these US-Europe differences in policies …
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By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
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probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible … identification strategy to evaluate the causal effects of these types of policies on the assimilation of refugees in developed … countries. We then describe the dynamics of labor market outcomes of several cohorts of refugees in Denmark. To our knowledge …
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The inflow of refugees and their subsequent integration can be an important challenge for both the refugees themselves … and the host society. Policy interventions can improve the lives and economic success of refugees and of their communities …. In this paper, we review the socioeconomic integration policy interventions focused on refugees and the evidence …
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The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs …, refugees arrived without formal selection processes or federal support. We examine the integration of historical refugees using … consistent with the hypothesis that refugees had greater exposure to English or more incentive to learn, due to the conditions of …
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Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more … for adult refugees and improved their economic integration, had significant intergenerational spillover effects in terms …
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of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting …
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