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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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-weighted average of populism scores of all parties) measures of the extent of populism. We show that levels of populism in the world …
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In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the … disparity between in-group and out-group social capital. This may cause refugees to favor in-group interactions and therefore …
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About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. 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 the self-selection and sorting of refugees and …
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How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three …
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native Colombians and Venezuelan refugees seeing higher victimization rates. Violent crimes remained unaffected. This is the …
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impact of the unprecedented influx of Syrian refugees after 2011 on the mental health of native Turks. Our results suggest …
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generate major increases in immigration pressure in the rest of the world, mostly in Europe. Other major questions on the …
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We study OECD countries that differ in immigration policies but share a high level of human capital. We find significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for...
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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 …
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