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 …

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees …

The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political … the early 1990s; and the exodus of refugees from the former Yugoslavia during the long series of Balkan wars between 1991 …

of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting …

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 …

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on … percent of communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, exposure to refugees varied at the local level. To account … for the potential endogeneity in the distribution of refugees, I use pre-existing group accommodations as instrumental …