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Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research

Becker, Sascha O. - 2022

Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes...

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Forced Displacement in History : Some Recent Research

Becker, Sascha O. - 2022

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Persecution, Pogroms and Genocide: A Conceptual Framework and New Evidence

Becker, Sascha O.; Mukand, Sharun; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022

migration patterns across dozens of historical episodes. Using this framework as a lens, we survey the growing literature on the …

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Integration, mobility, and human capital formation

Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2010

In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...

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Give Me Your Tired and Your Poor: Impact of a Large-Scale Amnesty Program for Undocumented Refugees

Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020

Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...

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The Cushioning Effect of Immigrant Mobility

Özgüzel, Cem - 2021

During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or …

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Population Aging and Migration

Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

International migration flows largely reflect demographic patterns and economic opportunities. Migration flows increase … unemployment, low wages, and high population growth. Migration flows decrease in the geographic and cultural distance between the … potential origin and destination, and in other migration costs. To the extent that migrants are employed, immigration can …

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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?

Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012

source and five destination countries we find selective migration determined by relative anthropometric inequality in source …

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Wider Boundaries: The Welfare State and International Remittances

Amegashie, J. Atsu; Batu, Michael - 2015

Recent theoretical work shows that precautionary savings increase in response to an increase in first-order risk. In addition, it is known that the welfare state, being an insurance or consumption-smoothing mechanism, reduces the negative welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a...

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How does the Flow of Remittances Affect the Trade Balance of the Middle East and North Africa?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hassan, Sherif Maher - 2016

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances worldwide over the last three decades. The region has also had the highest non-oil external trade balance deficit among developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in...

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