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As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … system was completely broken. Several studies report that Syrian refugees faced numerous diseases during their exodus …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …
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income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross …-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing … a small number of predictors currently available in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration …
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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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examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants – refugees and economic immigrants – in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …
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the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees … traumatic experiences of refugees interacted with time as an instrument for refugee mental health. We find that worse mental … employment by 14.1% and labor income by 26.8%. We also find some evidence of adverse impacts of refugees' mental illness on their …
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labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset on Syrian refugees in Turkey, the largest refugee group in any single …
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We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...
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production of one such resource - coca paste - into Colombia, where most coca leaf is now harvested. Our analysis shows that this …
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The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of...
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refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that …
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