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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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Diluted blood still better than water? : the beneficial effects of politicians' birthplaces on refugee acceptance
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114016
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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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Refugee migration, labor demand,and local employment
Auer, Daniel; Götz, Lilia - 2021
recent refugees in Germany who are exogenously allocated to districts and largely excluded from the labor market. Using panel … the local unemployment rate when more refugees arrive. The dynamic panel data estimates are robust to various sensitivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012672276
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Exploring the spillover effects of internally displaced settlements on the wellbeing of children of the locales
Uchenna, Efobi; Joseph, Ajefu - 2024
This research examines the effect of internally displaced persons (IDPs) resettlement on the anthropometric outcomes of the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance heterogeneities between the household and the closest...
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Hate at first sight? : dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration : the case of Ukip
Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...
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