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Skill downgrading among refugees and economic immigrants in Germany : evidence from the Syrian refugee crisis

Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila; Titus, David - 2022

Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...

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Life out of the shadows : impacts of amnesties in the lives of migrants

Ibáñez, Ana María; Moya, Andrés; Ortega, María Adelaida - 2022

This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in Colombia around a specified eligibility date in 2018....

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Determinants and dynamics of forced migration to Europe : evidence from a 3-D model of flows and stocks

Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; … - 2018

Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...

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Violence, development and migration waves : evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle …

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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country

Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...

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Give me your tired and your poor: impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees

Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020

Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...

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The refugee crisis and right-wing populism: evidence from the Italian dispersal policy

Campo, Francesco; Giunti, Sara; Mendola, Mariapia - 2021

This paper examines how the 2014-2017 'refugee crisis' in Italy affected voting behaviour and the rise of right-wing populism in national Parliamentary elections. We collect unique administrative data throughout the crisis and leverage exogenous variation in refugee resettlement across Italian...

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Development level of hosting areas and the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes

Aracı, Doğu Tan; Demircioğlu, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting … the significant variation in the development level across regions of Turkey, several of which host a substantial number of … development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of …

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Estimating poverty among refugee populations: a cross-survey imputation exercise for Chad

Beltramo, Theresa; Dang, Hai-Anh; Sarr, Ibrahima; … - 2021

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, combining survey and administrative...

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The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey

Demirci, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at the national level. We use the 2018 round of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which includes a representative sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to...

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