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Do Natives' Beliefs About Refugees' Education Level Affect Attitudes Toward Refugees? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp - 2018
In recent years, Europe has experienced an unprecedented influx of refugees. While natives' attitudes toward refugees … refugees' characteristics. We conducted survey experiments with more than 5,000 university students in Germany in which we … exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926562
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On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979577
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy
Moraga, Jesús - 2014
on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043212
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Refugee Resettlement, Redistribution and Growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018
This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less advanced and less wealthy economy combined with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918058
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The Effects of Foreign Aid on Refugee Flows
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2021
This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee … causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both total refugee flows to the world and flows to donor countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315429
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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success
Battisti, Michele - 2018
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914677
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Gravity Estimation of the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade : An Alternative Procedure with Alternative Data
Flam, Harry - 2011
Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) derive gravity equations to estimate effects of trade barriers on the intensive and extensive margins of trade. They exploit the frequency of zeros in aggregate bilateral trade data to identify effects on the extensive margin and to obtain controls for firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128040
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The Elasticity of Trade : Estimates and Evidence
Simonovska, Ina - 2011
Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129252
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Robust Growth Determinants
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2011
This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129859
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Natural Resource Endowment : A Mixed Blessing?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2011
that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129862