This article reviews the economics literature on the impacts of forced migration. The literature is divided into two parts: impacts on forced migrants and impacts on host communities. Studies exploring the impact of forced migration due to WWII suggest that the long-term impact is often...

This article looks at the impact of crime and institutions on FDI into Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1996-2010 period. FDI is disaggregated into primary, secondary and tertiary sectors and three variables related to violent crime are used: homicides, crime victimization, and...

This issue of the Hispanic Economic Outlook includes three articles: Hispanic Economic Employment Conditions by Marie Mora, Hispanic homeowners and worries about housing by Mark Hugo Lopez, the current state of workers' remittances by Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas

What are the preferred policy responses of host country residents to large migration inflows, and to what extent are these preferences driven by contact with migrants as well as values such as humanitarianism This paper addresses these questions using new data on preferences of Colombians for...