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On the economics and politics of refugee migration

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After … implementation. We then describe key features of the current refugee crisis and document the overall magnitudes and types of refugee … movements, illegal border crossings, and asylum applications to EU member states. We next turn to the economics of refugee …

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Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy

Fernandez-Huertas Moraga, Jesus; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...

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Between fear mongers and Samaritans : does information provision affect attitudes towards the right of asylum in Germany?

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2020 - This version: 1 July 2020

We utilise information experiments embedded in a representative population survey to elicit the German public's attitude towards the right of asylum. We randomly assign the interviewees to different groups and 'treat' each group with different information about the asylum-seekers that came to...

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Trust, temperature fluctuations, and asylum applications

Carattini, Stefano; Veronesi, Marcella - 2020

This paper studies the relationship between generalized trust, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on migration. On the one hand, countries with higher...

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Migration policy : lessons from cooperatives

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation certificate. In exchange, the immigrants may enter the country of choice without danger. The revenue goes to the country of the recipient nation rather than to human smugglers....

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Does granting refugee status to family-reunified women improve their integration?

Hasager, Linea - 2023

In most countries, men are the principal asylum applicants, while women are admitted through family-reunification procedures. Family reunification implies that women's residence permits are contingent on remaining married to their husbands. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID)...

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The (option-) value of overstaying

Méango, Romuald; Poinas, François - 2023

The paper is structured around three main contributions. First, it takes advantage of a unique survey on Afghan asylum seekers in Germany to provide novel descriptive insights into asylum seekers' beliefs about their outcomes and the associated intention to overstay. Second, it estimates asylum...

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Interest income tax evasion, the EU savings directive, and capital market effects

Klautke, Tina (contributor); … - 2008

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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data : a bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2014

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study …

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Tradable immigration quotas

Fernandez-Huertas Moraga, Jesus; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate global poverty. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that particular country as well as a positive externality for individuals and governments who care about world...

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