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Sarvimäki, Matti - 2009

We study the long-term effects of human displacement using individual-level panel data on forced migrants and comparable non-migrants. After World War II, Finland ceded a tenth of its territory to the Soviet Union and resettled the entire population living in these areas in the remaining parts...

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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows : The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration

Guzi, Martin - 2019

We analyze the long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland after World War II on residential migration … resettlement by 2 million Czech inhabitants. Results based on nearest neighbor matching and regression discontinuity design show a …

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How Forced Displacements Caused by a Violent Conflict Affect Wages in Colombia

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2016

In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent conflicts between the government, the militia group (FARC), drug trafficking, and other crime that...

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Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction : The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia

Bahar, Dany - 2019

During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000 …

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Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools

Tumen, Semih - 2019

Native children switch from public to private primary schools in response to increased refugee concentration in the Turkish public education system. 10 percentage-point increase in refugee-to-population ratio generates, on average, 0.16 percentage-point increase in private primary school...

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Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Foreigner Hate Crimes in Germany

Entorf, Horst - 2019

regions and regions with a legacy of anti-foreigner hate crimes are also found to be prone to hate crime against refugees …

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The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality Among Natives

Aygün, Aysun - 2020

As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … system was completely broken. Several studies report that Syrian refugees faced numerous diseases during their exodus …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants : Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...

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The Evils of Forced Migration : Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?

Falck, Oliver - 2011

Armed conflicts, natural disasters and infrastructure projects continue to force millions into migration. This is especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when forced to leave their homelands and settle within...

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Tradable Immigration Quotas

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - 2011

substantial welfare gains for all the parties involved. We then propose two potential applications: a market for the resettlement … of international (e.g., climate change) refugees, and an extension of the US diversity lottery to a larger set of host …

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