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Trust, Temperature Fluctuations, and Asylum Applications
Carattini, Stefano - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between generalized trust, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on migration. On the one hand, countries with higher...
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The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries
Brell, Courtney - 2020
We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries …. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform … significant heterogeneity between host countries, but in general refugees experience persistently worse outcomes than other …
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Refugee Migration and the Labor Market : Lessons from 40 Years of Post-Arrival Policies in Denmark
Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies : Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Stepan; Roesel, Felix - 2021
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
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Immigrants as Future Voters
Hillman, Arye; Van Long, Ngo - 2021
Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies beneficial for lower-income voter-constituencies, have...
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The Economic Effects of Immigration Restriction Policies - Evidence from the Italian Mass Migration to the US
Coluccia, Davide M.; Spadavecchia, Lorenzo - 2021
This article studies the impact of immigration restriction policies on technology adoption in sending countries. From 1920 to 1921, the number of Italian immigrants to the United States dropped by 85% after Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, a severely restrictive immigration law. In a...
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Priming Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Implications for Migration Research and Survey Design
Dylong, Patrick; Setzepfand, Paul; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2023
Using data from two representative and large-scale population surveys with more than 4000 participants, we investigate the effect of randomized priming interventions on attitudes towards immigrants. We document robust null effects of these interventions under two experimental settings, across...
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
applications: a market for the resettlement of international (e.g., climate change) refugees, and the creation of an OECD poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291544
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Cooperation in a Fragmented Society : Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2020
Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and …-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that …
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