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The cross-national empirics of the international asylum system are in their infancy. While Hatton, 2009, and Neumayer, 2005, 2006a and 2006b provided important and valuable cross-national insights on the drivers of the asylum seeking process, as yet little is known in terms of hard-core evidence...
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Asylum System, but without clearly identifying the basis for cooperation. Providing a safe haven for refugees can be seen as … order to achieve an optimal distribution of refugees across member states. Such policies are economically desirable and are …
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Existing refugees in a destination country from the same source country reduce the uncertainty faced by subsequent … asylum migrants since existing refugees can provide information and assistance. We argue that such network effects extend …
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Extant literature shows that well-being is one of the key drivers of attitudes towards migrants as well as preferences for asylum and refugee policies. To investigate the underpinnings of these relationships, two studies on representative samples of 600 Slovaks each were conducted before the...
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examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention … policies in deterring asylum seekers. The paper concludes with an outline of the assimilation of refugees in host country … labour markets. -- refugees ; asylum migration ; asylum policy …
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worsening of conflict leads to an extremely strong reaction in asylum requests from refugees of conflict-ridden countries. While …
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This paper provides background information and basic descriptive statistics for a representative survey of the German population conducted on our behalf by GfK in the first quarter of 2018. The survey covers various topics, including: 1) attitudes towards asylum seekers; 2) migrating workers in...
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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 …
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Is naturalization an effective tool to boost refugees' labor market integration? We address this novel empirical … citizen status allows refugees to close their gaps in labor market outcomes relative to non-refugee migrants while having non …
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We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
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