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, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves. …
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homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees … intensity. I exploit this variation to investigate the short and long run causal effects of hosting refugees on the outcomes of …-cohort variation and find that childhood exposure to this massive arrival of refugees reduced height in early adulthood by 1.8 cm (1 …
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We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by … them to assess effects on refugees' economic position during the first five years after arrival. The most remarkable …
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Canada admits refugees on the basis of compassion and not economic criteria. It is however, important to document the … are that employed Canadian refugees earn an amount equal to that earned by their family class reference group circa 1980 …-2001. However, the incidence of social assistance attachment for refugees is substantial and for those refugees who receive any …
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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
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examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention … policies in deterring asylum seekers. The paper concludes with an outline of the assimilation of refugees in host country …
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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 a unique dataset on refugees, we leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously … refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social … assigned to live in specific counties. We find that high initial local unemployment negatively affects refugees' economic and …
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Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi …
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