We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in … of the paper, we examine the consequences of receiving asylum seekers and refugees and identify two main findings. First …, the reception of refugees is unlikely to generate large direct economic effects. Both labor market and fiscal consequences …

A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a …

first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite …

on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We …

years of employment restrictions together with individual data for refugees entering European countries between 1985 and …. These effects are not mechanical, since we exclude refugees who may still be subject to employment restrictions, are non … concentrated among less educated refugees, translate into lower occupational quality, and seem not to be driven by selective …

In this paper, we use repeated cross-sectional survey data to study the labour market performance of refugees across … several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour market outcomes for refugees are consistently … and destination country. Refugees are 11.6 percent less likely to have a job and 22.1 percent more likely to be unemployed …