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of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify the validity of height as a proxy for human and health capital. We further … immigration of European refugees. …
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The current immigration of refugees leads to a discussion about links between rural development and migration. Some …
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Switzerland. Due to the 2015 arrival of high numbers of refugees into Europe, the focus is on studies about asylum seekers …, recognized refugees and, more generally, on forced migrants. In total, twenty recently published studies are scrutinized in a …
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, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around … offers a strategic case for understanding factors that shaped the arrival and resettlement experiences of Vietnamese refugees … not be uniformly positive for immigrants and refugees to have an integration experience deemed successful. …
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recent refugees? What is the relative importance of socioemotional skills in refugees' language learning process? Given the …), we further ask whether socioemotional skills may compensate for refugees' resource disadvantages. Empirically, we rely on …
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background of the large-scale influx of refugees into Germany between 2015 and 2016, this paper uses data from a unique and … concerns about refugees with those about EU migrants. We propose several hypotheses regarding egotropic and sociotropic motives …
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Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal effects of the size and composition of local co-national networks on formal labor market access of...
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Does local exposure to refugees increase right-wing support? This paper studies a case uniquely suited to address this … question: the allocation of refugees to the rural hinterlands of eastern Germany during the European refugee crisis. Similar to … refugees following strict administrative rules and a matching procedure allow for causal identification. Our measurements …
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The integration of refugees in host countries' labor markets is complicated by structural barriers, missing formal … qualification and language deficiencies. This leads to widespread concern that refugees may end up in informal and precarious … illegal nature of this phenomenon. In this paper, we conduct a list experiment to measure unregistered work among refugees in …
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examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants – refugees and economic immigrants – in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …
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