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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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impact of the unprecedented influx of Syrian refugees after 2011 on the mental health of native Turks. Our results suggest …
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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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-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …
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Refugees hosted across the developed world often work in low-quality jobs, regardless of education previously attained … in their country of origin. In this paper, I analyse the long-term value of formal host-country education for refugees … attained in Austria vis-à-vis Bosnia on labour market outcomes for refugees aged around schooling thresholds. These estimates …
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refugees as opposed to all immigrants on aggregate. …
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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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experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and … of all treatments for refugees at the two-month follow-up, and suggestive evidence of four-month impacts for the cash … grant; liquidity appears to be a key barrier to employment for refugees. …
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refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …
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During the early 1990s Germany received over half a million Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many of these … refugees, who were under temporary protection, had been repatriated. We exploit this historical episode to provide causal …
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