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We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … recipient nation rather than to human smugglers. The cost would be much lower than today's efforts to secure the borders. Asylum … seekers get back the money paid for the certificate. Immigration is therewith regulated more efficiently than today. Not all …
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drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences …,844 per missing refugee per year, on average) net of public expenses. Large reductions in the presence of asylum seekers …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
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estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a difference-in- differences strategy and a … approximately 2.5 percent due to immigration. Prices of goods and services have declined in similar magnitudes. We highlight that …
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This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in … asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other … refugees, and their implications for modeling host nations’ asylum policy choices. The chapter closes in Section 6 with …
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Legal and illegal markets often coexist. In theory, marginal legalization can either substitute for the remaining parallel market, or complement it via scale effects. I study migrants crossing without prior authorization at the US southwest border, where large-scale unlawful crossing coexists...
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This article assesses the impact of immigrant and asylum seeker in ows on the size of the informal sector in host … Elgin and Oztunali (2012) combined with migration data from the OECD Interna- tional Migration Database and data on asylum … asylum seeker ows by their predicted values derived from the estimation of a pseudo-gravity model. Results suggest that both …
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estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a difference-in- differences strategy and a … approximately 2.5 percent due to immigration. Prices of goods and services have declined in similar magnitudes. We highlight that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001318
This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...
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The recent surge in the number of forcibly displaced persons who cross international borders in search of protection …
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