Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 71
Cover Image
The Globalization of Refugee Flows
Devictor, Xavier - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837483
Cover Image
Returns to Low-Skilled International Migration : Evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Lottery Program
Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2020
Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840553
Cover Image
Informing Migration Policies : A Data Primer
Carletto, Calogero - 2018
Researchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on migration. Although the progress has been impressive, some basic challenges remain. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937687
Cover Image
Global Migration Revisited : Short-Term Pains, Long-Term Gains, and the Potential of South-South Migration
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
This paper re-examines the development implications of international migration focusing on two issues: how the costs and benefits of migration change over time, and the significance of South-South migration for development. First, the analysis finds that although greater migration could push...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969545
Cover Image
Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the sending communities and countries. However, there are also concerns about potential costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972653
Cover Image
Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly understood. This study investigates a policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974781
Cover Image
Estimating Poverty Among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
Beltram, Theresa - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835663
Cover Image
Multidimensional Poverty Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq
Noumedem Temgoua, Claudia - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837701
Cover Image
Recovery from Conflict : Lessons of Success
Mueller, Hannes Felix - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962319
Cover Image
How Does Poverty Differ Among Refugees? Taking a Gender Lens to the Data on Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Hanmer, Lucia - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909310