of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify the validity of height as a proxy for human and health capital. We further … show this episode of European migration displays well-known features of migrant self-selection: early migrants were taller … immigration of European refugees. …

USA. Among politicians and scholars, the problem was first articulated during World War I and reappeared as an issue of …

USA. Among politicians and scholars, the problem was first articulated during World War I and reappeared as an issue of …

movements in European countries, while more general migration policies may rather affect first entry flows into EU …In the last two decades, European countries, while working for the establishment of a Common European Asylum System … domestic goals at times, imposing restrictive policies on forced migrants to deter inflows and deflect refugees to fellow …

that there exists positive skill selection among recently arrived refugees in Germany. …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 …

Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers have 22 percent more years of schooling - the indicator used … indicators of individual and parental human capital influence short-run integration outcomes in Germany, while work experience in …

countries that recently arrived in Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers in our sample have 22% more … education. It is demonstrated that individual human capital influences short-run integration outcomes in Germany. The paper …

’ mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against …Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees … refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. We apply a regression discontinuity …

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 …