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This paper investigates the long-term consequences of mass refugee inflow on economic development by examining the ….2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey to Greece, increasing the Greek population by more than 20% within … thousand Greek municipalities that existed in Greece in 1920. Exploiting the spatial variation in the resettlement location, we …
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several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour market outcomes for refugees are consistently … role of asylum policies in explaining the observed refugee gap. We conduct a difference-in-differences analysis that … exploits the differential timing of dispersal policy enactment across European countries: we show that refugee cohorts exposed …
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This article investigates the medium to long-term effects on refugee labour market outcomes of the temporary employment … refugee employment probability in post-ban years by 15%, an impact driven primarily by lower labour market participation … employment ban policies, including placebo analysis of non-refugee migrants and an instrumental variable strategy. To illustrate …
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Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...
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We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee …
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The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas …
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Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or...
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movements, illegal border crossings, and asylum applications to EU member states. We next turn to the economics of refugee …, we illustrate the economic integration of past refugee migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policy …This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …
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asylum seekers face, concerning the chances of obtaining refugee protection, the processing time and the risk of repatriation …
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The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states …. Rather, there appear to have been positive effects on EU's productivity. The sending countries face some risks of losing … from brain gain and brain circulation in an enlarged EU. For the migrants the benefits in terms of better career prospects …
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