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According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect …
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According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect …
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During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000 …
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During the early 1990s Germany received over half a million Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many of these … refugees, who were under temporary protection, had been repatriated. We exploit this historical episode to provide causal …
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The share of the foreign-born in OECD countries is increasing, and this article summarizes economics research on the effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political economy of immigration, and...
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externality for all those (individuals and governments) who care about world poverty. This implies that the existing international … of international (e.g., climate change) refugees, and an extension of the US diversity lottery to a larger set of host …
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Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across Member States. We draw on previous theoretical work to simulate how … a system of tradable refugee-admission quotas coupled with a matching mechanism assigning refugees to their preferred … destinations and destinations to their preferred types of refugees would give more flexibility to Member States while respecting …
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for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries’ and migrants …
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on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We …
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