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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. (i) Refugees today travel longer distances. (ii) Refugees today are less likely to … seek protection in a neighboring country. (iii) Refugees today are less geographically concentrated. And (iv) refugees …
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Decades of conflict have contributed to high flows of internal displacement in Iraq. The incidence of these flows on the welfare of internally displaced persons is not well understood. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the link between internal displacement...
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Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad …, by combining United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees survey and administrative data. The proposed method offers …
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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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collected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to register refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze … income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing between different types of male and female … principal applicant (PA) households is important in the setting of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Poverty rates for couples with …
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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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Most reports on refugees deal with the immediate needs of displaced people. This paper seeks to go beyond the emergency …-Saharan Africa from a long-term angle, from the perspective of refugees' own agency as well as from the perspective of the host … community. The paper aims to shed light on the economic lives of refugees in their host communities. Starting with an overview …
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worldwide. This paper combines newly available data on the distribution of Syrian refugees across Turkey and the Turkish Labour … Force Survey to assess their labor market impact. Syrian refugees are overwhelmingly employed informally, since they were …
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This paper analyzes the impact of the 2012 crisis in Mali on internally displaced people, refugees and returnees. It …
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This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis exploits geographical, time, and cohort variations using...
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