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Facing displacement and a global pandemic : evidence from a fragile state
Di Maio, Michele; Fasani, Francesco; Sciabolazza, … - 2022
We use novel survey data to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Libyan population. In our sample, 9.5% of respondents report that a household member has been infected by COVID-19, while 24.7% of them have suffered economic damages and 14.6% have experienced negative health effects due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168872
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe: who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138985
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Do processing times affect the distribution of asylum seekers across Europe?
Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - 2020
We propose a new methodology to estimate empirically the input price-induced technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical change in China has been induced by sharp increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180316
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Determinants and dynamics of forced migration to Europe : evidence from a 3-D model of flows and stocks
Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; … - 2018
Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913541
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The causal impact of migration on US trade : evidence from a natural experiment
Steingress, Walter - 2015
exogenous allocation of refugees within the US refugee resettlement program. Our results are robust to an alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528635
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Environmental disasters and migration
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346755
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Forced migration and mortality
Bauer, Thomas K.; Giesecke, Matthias; Janisch, Laura M. - 2017
We examine the long-run effects of forced migration from Eastern Europe into post-war Germany. Existing evidence suggests that displaced individuals are worse off economically, facing a considerably lower income and a higher unemployment risk than comparable natives even twenty years after being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757739
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Forced migration, staying minorities, and new societies: evidence from post-war Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486522
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Violence, development and migration waves : evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and international emigration in this or any other region....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715876
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Back to work : the unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Ecuador's labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana - 2023
Using the 2021 and 2022 HFPS for Ecuador, the paper investigates the labor market trajectories of different socio-economic groups. The analysis shows that the employment of older individuals, less-educated workers, and women fell disproportionately. However, while the recovery between 2021 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317711