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Shifting patterns of migration in Europe : new source countries, old challenges

Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024

Over the past few decades, immigration has become the primary factor contributing to population growth in the European Union (EU) due to rapid population ageing and declining fertility rates. However, the traditional migration source countries - namely, the EU countries in Central and East...

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Economic preferences and the self-selection of immigrants

Zhan, Crystal; Deole, Sumit S. - 2022

Classical theories hypothesize individual economic preferences, including preferences toward risk, time, and trust, as determinants for migration intention. In the paper, we combine data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, European Social Survey, and World Values Survey to investigate how...

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Chapter 12. The Refugee/Asylum Seeker

Chin, Aimee; Cortes, Kalena E. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 585-658). 2015

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 … types of immigrants, and provides a new analysis comparing refugees to other immigrants in the United States using a sample …

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Where would Ukrainian refugees go if they could go anywhere?

Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Hammar, Olle - 2022

We present estimates of the number of refugees expected to flee Ukraine and to which countries they are expected to … the distribution of Ukrainian refugees between different countries. More specifically, international solidarity in …

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An optimal allocation of asylum seekers

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2024

We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare of a population is determined both by the...

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