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The break-ups of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were accompanied by some of the worst military conflicts in modern history, claiming lives of thousands of people and forcibly displacing millions. We study how people displaced by war and conflict within these countries fare on the labour...
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especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when …
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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
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We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees … were resettled in the United States between 2005 and 2010. We address threats to identification due to sorting of refugees … into specific labor markets and to strategic placement by resettlement agencies. We find that the probability that refugees …
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We exploit the regional variation in the unexpected (or forced) inflow of Syrian refugees as a natural experiment to … the channel through which the price declines take place is the informal labor market. Syrian refugees supply inexpensive …
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Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal effects of the size and composition of local co-national networks on formal labor market access of...
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In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...
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In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of …
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Native children switch from public to private primary schools in response to increased refugee concentration in the Turkish public education system. 10 percentage-point increase in refugee-to-population ratio generates, on average, 0.16 percentage-point increase in private primary school...
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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 …
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