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Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?

Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman - 2019

In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper...

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Foreign aid, bilateral asylum immigration and development

Murat, Marina - 2019

This paper measures the links between aid from 14 rich to 113 developing economies and bilateral asylum applications during years 1993 to 2013. Dynamic panel models and Sys-GMM are used. Results show that asylum applications are related to aid nonlinearly in the level of development of origin...

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Challenged by migration : Europe's options

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes...

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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...

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Economic preferences and the self-selection of immigrants

Zhan, Crystal; Deole, Sumit S. - 2022

Classical theories hypothesize individual economic preferences, including preferences toward risk, time, and trust, as determinants for migration intention. In the paper, we combine data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, European Social Survey, and World Values Survey to investigate how...

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Immigration, integration, and the informal economy in OECD countries

Ben Atta, Oussama; Chort, Isabelle; Senne, Jean-Noël - 2022

This article assesses the impact of immigrant and asylum seeker in ows on the size of the informal sector in host countries from a macroeconomic perspective. We use two indicators of informality provided by Medina and Schneider (2019) and Elgin and Oztunali (2012) combined with migration data...

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Diluted blood still better than water? : the beneficial effects of politicians' birthplaces on refugee acceptance

Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh - 2023

exhibit a strong preference for refugees. We provide the first empirical evidence on the relationship between politicians …-born politicians have higher recognition rates and offer more aid to refugees. Our findings remain robust for different outcome …-born politicians affiliated with left-wing parties tend to show more favouritism toward refugees. Finally, we find that favourable …

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The effect of immigration on natives' well-being in the European Union

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019 - Version: May 24, 2019

subgroups, notably the poorly educated and elderly. Refugees also do not statistically affect the well-being of natives. Any …

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How do new immigration flows affect existing immigrants? : evidence from the refugee crisis in Germany

Deole, Sumit S.; Huang, Yue - 2020

differential demand shock induced by refugees' consumption of culturally similar goods and services. However, the unemployment … effects dissipated starting in 2016, coinciding with refugees' delayed yet incremental labor market integration. We also … to arriving refugees. Our results suggest that TMENA immigrants' assimilation of German identity was unaffected by the …

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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020

The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...

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