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Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or...
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We study a Danish reform in 2002 that lowered the ex ante probability of refugees receiving permanent residency by …
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discrimination, more asylum centres close to areas of conflict, and more attention to education and training in areas where refugees … large-scale waves of refugees wanting to enter the EU, resulting from conflicts, natural catastrophes, and other sudden or … refugees. …
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A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a …
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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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The recent so called Mediterranean refugee crisis has ignited concerns about the magnitude of the flows of asylum seekers to Europe. This paper examines the determinants of the destination choice of first time non-EU asylum applicants to the EU, between 2008-2020. It investigates the role played...
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associated with accepting refugees, (iv) the share of Muslim asylum-seekers, and (v) the share of war refugees. We find that … providing information about the fiscal costs associated with accepting refugees, and about the share of Muslim refugees … share of Muslim refugees are 18 percentage points more likely to call for abolishing the right of asylum when informed about …
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Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting …
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Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938780
associated with accepting refugees, (iv) the share of Muslim asylum-seekers, and (v) the share of war refugees. We find that … providing information about the fiscal costs associated with accepting refugees, and about the share of Muslim refugees … share of Muslim refugees are 18 percentage points more likely to call for abolishing the right of asylum when informed about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244491