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Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …
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Forced displacement is a major driver of mental health disorders among refugees globally. The mental well-being of … adult refugees, particularly mothers, is widely recognized as a crucial determinant of their children's psychological health …
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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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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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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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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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This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...
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migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact of refugees in low- and middle … any country—Syrian refugees in Turkey. Although these refugees are much poorer than the local population, have limited … and refugees) falls due to the arrival of the refugees. This finding also applies to several types of crime; the only …
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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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performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia …, combining household income surveys collected by the Government of Colombia and administrative data collected by the United … Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We find that certain variable transformation methods can help resolve these …
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