We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster … first leverage the quasi-random distribution of refugees "without U.S. ties" after the enactment of the 1980 Refugee Act, to … show that outward FDI to refugees' countries of origin grew more from those U.S. commuting zones that hosted greater …

migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact of refugees in low- and middle … in any country - Syrian refugees in Turkey. Although these refugees are much poorer than the local population, have … natives and refugees) falls due to the arrival of the refugees. This finding also applies to several types of crime; the only …

how they are selected: while economic immigrants are chosen based on skill and education, refugees migrate at times of … mobility of refugees at p25 is largely unaffected while that of non-refugees falls by around 2 percentiles. …

examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …

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 …

This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in … Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in … vulnerability and awards public transfers (40 pp), and financial services (64.3 pp), relative to other refugees. The program also …