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This study estimates the fiscal consequences of receiving refugees, over the refugees' lifetime. It uses data from … Sweden in 2015, and the calculations account for refugees' age, years since immigration, and country of origin. The estimated … capita for refugees from the countries of origin for which labor market performance has historically been the strongest, to …
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mass migration of Syrian refugees to Turkey to identify the effect of migrants on firm performance and market structure. We …
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This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in … Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee … populations and their type of accommodation, I find that an increase in the population share of refugees increases the vote share …
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recent refugees? What is the relative importance of socioemotional skills in refugees' language learning process? Given the …), we further ask whether socioemotional skills may compensate for refugees' resource disadvantages. Empirically, we rely on …
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Do violent conflicts increase religiosity? This study draws on evidence from a large-scale survey on refugees in … Germany linked with data on time-varying conflict intensity in refugees' birth regions prior to the survey interview. The … refugees pray. The relationship between conflict and praying holds equally across demographic subgroups. Evidence suggests that …
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This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …
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localities with a greater shareof Greek refugees in 1923 display higher level of prosperity and industrialization sixty … yearsafter the event. These long-run benefits of refugees appear to be driven by the provision of newagricultural know-how and …. The economic gains of the resettle-ment were lower in places where refugees were clustered in separate enclaves and where …
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of international (e.g., climate change) refugees, and an extension of the US diversity lottery to a larger set of host …
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Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...
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