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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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. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform …We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries … significant heterogeneity between host countries, but in general refugees experience persistently worse outcomes than other …
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their labor supply. Our findings suggest that stricter permanent residency rules, rather than incentivizing refugees' skill …
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We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … entrance barriers and coercive measures to prevent illegal entry would disappear. However, the pressure of illegal migrants is …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to...
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We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...
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host countries. We used Facebook ads to recruit a panel of Ukrainian refugees in Europe, starting in June 2022. Six waves … carried out in 2022 and 2023 allow us to examine the causal impact of local conflict intensity on refugees' return intentions … and integration. We find that less than 10% of Ukrainian refugees express a desire to permanently settle abroad. While the …
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In most countries, men are the principal asylum applicants, while women are admitted through family-reunification procedures. Family reunification implies that women's residence permits are contingent on remaining married to their husbands. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID)...
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