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More than 3 million asylum seekers arrived into Europe between 2014 and 2016, and we analyze the role of destination …
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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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France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has … been on continuous decline in Germany for many years, hardly affected by the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the …
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in five countries in north-western Europe. We also calculate the net replacement rates for families receiving social …; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …
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Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 …
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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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first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite …
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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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process. The common component is highly relevant especially in continental Europe, and is more visible for manufacturing than …
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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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