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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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The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political … the early 1990s; and the exodus of refugees from the former Yugoslavia during the long series of Balkan wars between 1991 …
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European countries experienced a large increase in labor supply due to the influx of Ukrainian refugees after the 2022 …, and endogenous capital accumulation. We find that real GDP increases in Europe in the long term, with large distributional …
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We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched … refugees to occupations with local labor shortages after basic training for those jobs. Leveraging the staggered roll … percentage points two years after. The policy was especially effective for male refugees and refugees with some secondary …
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effects. In the aftermath of the Second World War about 8m ethnic Germans were expelled from their domiciles in Eastern Europe … counties I show that the settlement of refugees had a large and persistent effect on the size of the local population …
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In settings where an individual's labor choices are constrained, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field experiment with...
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We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in … the country each year, and utilizing the staggered movement of refugees across provinces over time, we estimate … instrumental variables models that address potential endogeneity of the number of refugees and their location, and find that an …
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Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in … the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in … benefits, but we find evidence of temporarily higher property crime when refugees received lower benefits. We also find that …
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In 2015-2016 Germany experienced a wave of predominantly low-skilled refugee immigration. We evaluate its macroeconomic and distributional effects using a quantitative overlapping generations model calibrated using German micro data to replicate education and productivity differentials between...
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This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …
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