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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

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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Immigrants' and Native Workers : New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette - 2013

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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Decision-Making Under the Gambler's Fallacy : Evidence from Asylum Judges, Loan Officers, and Baseball Umpires

Chen, Daniel L. - 2016

We find consistent evidence of negative autocorrelation in decision-making that is unrelated to the merits of the cases considered in three separate high-stakes field settings: refugee asylum court decisions, loan application reviews, and major league baseball umpire pitch calls. The evidence is...

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Forced Migration and Human Capital : Evidence from Post-Wwii Population Transfers

Becker, Sascha O. - 2018

We exploit a unique historical setting to study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in large-scale migration. Poles were forced to move from the Kresy territories in the East (taken over by the USSR)...

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The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave : Applying the Synthetic Control Method to the Mariel Boatlift

Peri, Giovanni - 2015

We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the labor market effects of the Mariel Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group of cities that best matches Miami's labor market trends pre-Boatlift and providing more...

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The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States : Evidence from the Acs

Evans, William N. - 2017

identify refugees from the larger group of immigrants to examine the outcomes of refugees relocated to the U.S. Among young … adults, we show that refugees that enter the U.S. before age 14 graduate high school and enter college at the same rate as … natives. Refugees that enter as older teenagers have lower attainment with much of the difference attributable to language …

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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves : Reconciling Conflicting Results

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting …

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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success

Battisti, Michele - 2016

This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....

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Refugees from Dust and Shrinking Land : Tracking the Dust Bowl Migrants

Long, Jason - 2016

We construct longitudinal data from the U.S. Census records to study migration patterns of those affected by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Our focus is on the famous "Okie" migration of the Southern Great Plains. We find that migration rates were much higher in the Dust Bowl than elsewhere in the...

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Unwelcome Guests? The Effects of Refugees on the Educational Outcomes of Incumbent Students

Figlio, David N. - 2017

involves the possible adverse effects of incoming refugees on host communities. We examine the effects of a large refugee …. We find precise zero estimated effects of refugees on the educational outcomes of incumbent students in the year of the …

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