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The Fortress European City : the socio-spatial exclusion of asylum seekers in Copenhagen, Madrid, and Berlin
Kreichauf, René - 2014
The article aims to illustrate the spatial dimensions of exclusionary mechanisms applied to immigrants asking for asylum in European cities. It focuses on the housing of asylum seekers, its policies, effects, causes, conflicts and resistance, with the assumption that housing asylum seekers is...
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African asylum seekers in Europe : the interplay between foreign aid and governance in origin countries
Ripollés, Jordi; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - In: Open economies review 32 (2021) 5, pp. 829-865
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171802
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Macroeconomic consequences of international migration for OECD countries
Albis, Hippolyte d’; Boubtane, Ekrame - In: Understanding migration with macroeconomics, (pp. 59-86). 2020
D'Albis and Boubtane provide empirical evidence on the macroeconomic and fiscal consequences of international migration for OECD countries. The authors use a panel of 19 countries over the period 1980-2015 to study the effects of increases in the net migration rate on per capita GDP and on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625489
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"The mother of all political problems"? : On asylum seekers and elections in Germany
Tomberg, Lukas; Smith Stegen, Karen; Vance, Colin - 2019
Drawing on panel data from six elections between 1998 and 2017 in Germany, we estimate the causal effect of immigration – described by Germany’s interior minister as the "mother of all political problems" – on electoral support for the far right and the far left. Our identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012310753
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Refugees, asylum seekers, and policy in OECD countries
Hatton, Timothy J. - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 5, pp. 441-445
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Assessing the role of asylum policies in refugees' labor market integration : the case of protection statuses in the German asylum system
Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
II study the effect of refugees' protection status on labor market outcomes focusing on a recent cohort of Syrian and … Iraqi refugees entering Germany between 2013 and 2016. My empirical analysis exploits a sudden and unpredictable change in … Geneva convention to refugees from these two countries in March 2016. Using data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP survey of refugees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341618
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Refugees' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317592
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The UK and the conflict in Ukraine
Hudson, Robert - In: AICEI proceedings 17 (2022), pp. 164-177
The focus of this paper will be on the role played by post-"Brexit", "Global Britain" in the face of the continuing conflict in Ukraine. Emphasis will be placed upon the background of public opinion and the current political climate in the UK and on how Britain's role on the international scene...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229827
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The good tourist, the bad refugee and the ugly German : xenophobic activities and tourism
Endrich, Marek; Michel, Stephan - 2020
This article deals with the economic effects of xenophobic incidents. To analyze these effects, we focus on one important industry, namely tourism. Combining a novel, district-level data set on tourism in Germany with data on xenophobic activities, we find that xenophobic demonstrations lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437542
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Communicating abroad : a case study of Za'atari Syrian refugee camp
Xu, Ying; Maitland, Carleen F. - 2015
In this study, we examine how refugees in the Middle East stay connected through various communication services. Our … usage behaviors of refugees, providing valuable information for service providers as well as a basis for future research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526750