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This paper studies the relationship between generalized trust, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on migration. On the one hand, countries with higher...
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We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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1. Introduction -- 2. European Integration's First Three Decades. The Challenge of Immigration. Early Steps: Freedom of Movement for Whom? -- 3. 1985-1991: High Hopes and Community Leadership. 1985: Putting Immigration on the Agenda. Guidelines on Migration. The Single European Act. Article 8a...
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The paper identifies a policy inconsistency between the EU's asylum and the EU's labour migration policies and makes a call for stronger convergence. The analysis starts off by setting out the EU's current and future economic challenges with a view to its ageing population and low fertility...
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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After … implementation. We then describe key features of the current refugee crisis and document the overall magnitudes and types of refugee … movements, illegal border crossings, and asylum applications to EU member states. We next turn to the economics of refugee …
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In recent years, economic theories have been used to examine asylum provision by non-persecutor countries. Unfortunately, the nature of the analyses makes the results inaccessible to many who are interested in understanding the topic from multidisciplinary perspectives but are unfamiliar with...
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We estimate the effect of asylum seekers on house prices in England and Wales from 2004 to 2015, and find, using panel data and time series methods, that the government's dispersal policies have had small but statistically significant negative effects on housing prices, especially for...
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Refugee Act of 1980. Over the past decade, legal scholarship has uncovered significant disparities in asylum adjudication by …
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