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On the economics and politics of refugee migration

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

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Refugee migration and the labor market : lessons from 40 years of post-arrival policies in Denmark

Nielson 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 frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...

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The dynamics of return migration, human capital accumulation, and wage assimilation

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021

evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our … analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill …. Finally, our model provides important insight for the design of migration policies, showing that policies which initially …

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The labor market integration of refugee migrants in high-income countries

Brell, Courtney; Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 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 differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...

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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...

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Real exchange rates and the earnings of immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2023

We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows...

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Refugee benefit cuts

Dustmann, Christian; Landersø, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2023

This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longer-term consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an...

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