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The decision to flee : analyzing gender-specific determinants of international refugee migration
Renner, Laura; Schmid, Lena - 2020
Using a gravity approach, we explore determinants and dynamics of refugee migration using a gendered cross-national dyadic dataset on refugee movements for the years 2000-2015. Along three dimensions (push, pull and cost factors), we analyze whether there are heterogeneous effects of ight...
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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 … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and …
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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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Forced displacement in Colombia : what determines expulsion and reception in municipalities?
Dueñas, Ximena; Palacios, Paola; Zuluaga, André Blanca - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 20 (2014) 4, pp. 585-597
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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
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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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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...
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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
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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...
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How Stalin and Roosevelt influenced the federal elections in 2017 East Germany
Hälbig, Mirja C.; Lorenz, Jürgen R. - 2019
Exploiting differences in occupation status in East Germany in the last days of World War II and shortly thereafter, we … great numbers of refugees fleeing from the Red Army in 1945 had a disproportionate increase in AfD votes from 2013 to 2017 …
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