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first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite …
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on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We …
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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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We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees …
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Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...
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International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
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In this paper, we use repeated cross-sectional survey data to study the labour market performance of refugees across … several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour market outcomes for refugees are consistently … and destination country. Refugees are 11.6 percent less likely to have a job and 22.1 percent more likely to be unemployed …
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years of employment restrictions together with individual data for refugees entering European countries between 1985 and …. These effects are not mechanical, since we exclude refugees who may still be subject to employment restrictions, are non … concentrated among less educated refugees, translate into lower occupational quality, and seem not to be driven by selective …
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More than 3 million asylum seekers arrived into Europe between 2014 and 2016, and we analyze the role of destination-specific policy measures in shaping their location choices. We bring to the data a gravity equation that reflects the uncertainty that asylum seekers face, concerning the chances...
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Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across Member States. We draw on previous theoretical work to simulate how … a system of tradable refugee-admission quotas coupled with a matching mechanism assigning refugees to their preferred … destinations and destinations to their preferred types of refugees would give more flexibility to Member States while respecting …
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