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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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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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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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Migration shocks and voting : evidence from Ukrainian migration to Poland

Mykhailyshyna, Dariia; Zuchowski, David - 2025

toward pro-redistribution parties. We do not find similar effects for refugees, who, unlike temporary labor migrants, had … times stronger in areas exposed to refugees than to labor migrants. Our results are robust to the use of a number of …

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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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Effects of information provision on undocumented migration to Europe : evidence from a survey experiment

Lafleur, Jean-Michel; Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2025

Using an experimental design embedded within a nationally representative survey implemented in Algeria, this study seeks to evaluate the effect that information campaigns have on willingness of individuals residing in the Global South to engage in unauthorized migration to Europe. In particular,...

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