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Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...

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Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain

Crawley, Heaven; Drinkwater, Stephen; Kauser, Rukhsana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a … display the most tolerant views both before and after the increase in immigration and asylum. However, characteristics such as …

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Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD: A Short Overview

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention is given to the rising trend of asylum applications...

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Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

(especially the young and low-tenured ones) to pursue less manual-intensive occupations. As a result immigration had positive …

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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin...

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The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants: A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the …

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The Impact of Refugee Crises on Host Labor Markets: The Case of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; van den Berg, Marcel; Hassink, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The civil war in Syria has culminated into major refugee crises in its neighboring countries. By the end of 2013 more than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices,...

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Employment Integration of Refugees: The Influence of Local Factors on Refugee Job Opportunities in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Lundh, Christer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in contrast to most studies on immigrant economic integration primarily conducted on the national level or for the larger cities. The data used in the analysis is on male and female...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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