that refugees perform better than natives at the median wage, controlling for individual and firm characteristics. This …

network effects. To surmount this issue, we leverage the chaotic dispersal of Vietnamese refugees across the U.S. in 1975 …-existing networks of co-nationals, to causally identify the effects of network size and network quality on refugees': occupational … size and quality and leverage refugees' geo-locations to insulate our results from the Reflection Problem. Overall, network …

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 …

Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), together with wiiw, and which document the experiences of recent waves of refugees from … occupational status loss (or gain) that refugees experience in the course of the move from their home countries to the destination … integration' of refugees. Fourth, an analysis of the factors determining (or related to) the mental health problems that this wave …

determinants for migration intention. In the paper, we combine data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, European Social Survey … their preferences. We find a higher migration propensity among individuals who are more altruistic, patient, and trusting …