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Understanding decisions made on asylum applications in host countries
Issifou, Ismael - 2020
Millions of forcibly displaced people apply for asylum every year facing uncertain outcomes. What can explain cross-country heterogeneity in these outcomes? This study provides estimates of the determinants of asylum admission policies in host countries using a bilateral panel data set covering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229127
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How mass immigration affects countries with weak economic institutions : a natural experiment in Jordan
Nowrasteh, Alex; Forrester, Andrew C.; Blondin, Cole - 2019
economic institutions from the surge of refugees from the First Gulf War. The surge of refugees to Jordan in 1990-1991 was … massive and equal to 10 percent of Jordan's population in 1990. Importantly, these refugees were able to have a large and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008388
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Migration in Libya : a spatial network analysis
Di Maio, Michele; Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; Molini, Vasco - Weltbankgruppe - 2020
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses this unique source of data, combining several techniques...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228207
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Shoring up economic refugees : Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market
Olivieri, Sergio; Ortega, Francesc; Rivadeneira, Ana; … - 2020
Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap by analyzing a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297861
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Vulnerability and Protection of Refugees in Turkey : Findings from the Rollout of the Largest Humanitarian Cash Assistance Program in the World
Cuevas, P. Facundo - 2019
million refugees, Turkey hosts more refugees than any other country in the world. The program is funded by the European Union …Vulnerability and Protection of Refugees in Turkey: Findings from the Rollout of the Largest Humanitarian Cash … Assistance Program in the World assesses the targeting performance and benefit level design of the Emergency Social Safety Net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646193
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Jobs Interventions for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
Refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) often struggle to integrate the labor market. Even where they have the … knowledge on jobs interventions for refugees and IDPs. The specific challenges that those forcibly displaced face on the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647334
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The Development Challenge of Finding Durable Solutions for Refugees and Internally Displaced People
Harild, Niels - 2010
This note discusses the development challenge of finding durable solutions for refugees and Internally Displaced … Peoples (IDPs), and the relevance of this challenge for the World Development Report (WDR) on securing development in fragile … in order to move beyond humanitarian emergency assistance and contribute to durable solutions for refugees and IDPs in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247723
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Mental Health Among Displaced People and Refugees : Making the Case for Action at the World Bank Group
Marquez, Patricio V. - 2016
of the displaced and refugees would require strengthening partnerships between the World Bank Group (WBG), World Health …The current crisis of forced displacement is posing serious humanitarian and development challenges across the world …. The World Bank Group and the international community at large cannot ignore these challenges, given their scale and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248411
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The economics of international student and scholar mobility : directions for research
Chellaraj, Gnanaraj - 2019
International trade in higher education services in the form of international student mobility has increased sharply since the 1960s and especially from Eastern Europe and Central Asia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Many international students, especially those with graduate degrees, stay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022368
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Migration and brain drain
Weltbank / Europe and Central Asia Region / Office of … - 2019
every three immigrants in the world goes to Europe. Furthermore, although globally onlyone-third of migration takes place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121548