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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe: who migrates where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...

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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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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program

Aygün, Aysun Hızıroglu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021

This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...

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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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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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Female employment and intimate partner violence: evidence from Syrian refugee inflows to Turkey

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021

We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of Syrian refugees across Turkish provinces as an exogenous labor market shock. By employing a distance-based instrument, we find that refugee inflows caused a decline in female...

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

Beltramo, Theresa; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; 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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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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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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