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 … World and avoiding floods of unwanted asylum seekers arriving on the doorsteps of the First World. This is an issue that is …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

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 …

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 …

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees …

refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social …). Using a unique dataset on refugees, we leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously … assigned to live in specific counties. We find that high initial local unemployment negatively affects refugees' economic and …