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data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, this paper proposes propose a new approach to estimate the … mean and median durations of exile, and their variations over time. The analysis finds that people who were refugees at the …
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Civil war in Syria has resulted in more than four million refugees fleeing the country, of which 1.8 million have found … 2014 distribution of Syrian refugees across subregions of Turkey with the Turkish Labour Force Survey, to assess the impact … on Turkish labor market conditions. Using a novel instrument, the analysis finds that the refugees, who overwhelmingly do …
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, increasing the host population by 20 percent within a few months. Refugees were pro-vided with farmland, new houses and schools …, and were granted the Greek citizenship. This paper analyses the long-term social integration of refugees and the effect of … that, by the 2000s, refugees display a high rate of intermarriage with Greek natives, report levels of trust in others and …
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food voucher program for refugees. The estimations focus on the 2014 food vouchers administered by the World Food Programme … to Syrian refugees in Jordan. The analysis uses data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees …
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This paper uses a unique data set to analyze the migration dynamics of refugees, returnees, and internally displaced …
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Conflict-induced forced displacement is receiving increased interest within the international community. However, establishing an accurate picture of its scale and dynamics is extremely challenging. Large amounts of data on forced displacement are collected and disseminated each year and used to...
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This paper studies long-term impacts of violent conflict, to provide insights into the costs of conflict and policies to prevent conflict relapse. The findings link evidence on the contemporaneous effects of conflict with its persistent impact, especially by combining multiple data sources such...
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Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The severity and recurrent nature of these crises demand a fast understanding and quantification of their...
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southeastern regions, these refugees now reside throughout the country. There are many questions from policy makers regarding the …
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-Saharan Africa from a long-term angle, from the perspective of refugees own agency as well as from the perspective of the host … of the situation of refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa, the paper draws on findings from the literature to debunk some …Most reports on refugees deal with the immediate needs of displaced people. This paper seeks to go beyond the emergency …
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