JDC Literature Review
The JDC literature review contains summaries of recent publications and academic scholarship on issues relating to forced displacement.
Contact Matters: Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right
This paper investigates how exposure to refugees in Upper Austria affected voting for the far right Freedom Party of Austria. In state elections in September 2015, at the peak of the refugee crisis, the Freedom Party doubled its share of the vote with nationalistic,...
Brothers or Invaders? How Crises-driven Migrants Shape Voting Behavior
This paper explores the motivations driving negative political attitudes of local voters towards immigration, specifically whether these attitudes can be explained by self-interest or sociotropic motives. Self-interested voters predominantly care about the impact of...
Migration Shocks and Housing: Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan
This paper examines the short-term impact of Syrian refugee inflows on the housing market in Turkey. The unexpected influx of large numbers of Syrian refugees is used to construct a quasi-experimental design (the first wave of refugees, arriving between January 2012...
Immigration, Housing Rents, and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
This paper examines the short-term impact of Syrian refugee inflows on the housing market in Turkey. The unexpected influx of large numbers of Syrian refugees is used to construct a quasi-experimental design (the first wave of refugees, arriving between January 2012...
Spillover Effects of the Venezuelan Crisis: Migration Impacts in Colombia
This paper estimates the short-term consequences of Venezuelan immigration on the labor and poverty outcomes of native Colombians. The analysis is based on monthly migration and labor market data from the Colombian Department of Statistics over the period 2013-17. The...
The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave: Synthetic Control Method Meets the Mariel Boatlift
This article reexamines the labor market effects of the migration of almost 125,000 Cuban refugees to the United States between April and September 1980, known as the Mariel Boatlift. The Mariel Boatlift has been the subject of several economic studies because it...
The Impact of Refugees on Employment and Wages in Jordan
This paper investigates the short-term impacts of the Syrian refugee influx on labor market outcomes in Jordan. According to the 2015 Population Census, there were 1.3 million Syrians living in Jordan, compared to a population of 6.6 million Jordanian citizens. Until...
An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Syrian Refugees on the Turkish Labor Market
This paper investigates the causal effect of the influx of Syrian refugees on the Turkish labor market. The analysis is based on demographic and labor market data from the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) from 2010 to 2015 (inclusive), together with data on...
Integrating Venezuelans into the Colombian Labor Market
As of December 2018, Colombia hosted more than one million forced migrants who had fled the escalating economic, political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Colombia has embarked on a process of regularizing more than 442,000 eligible Venezuelan...
The Composition of Labor Supply and its Evolution from 2010 to 2016 in Jordan
This paper examines trends in labor force participation, unemployment and employment in Jordan between 2010 and 2016, in the context of large inflows of Syrian refugees as well as rapid increases in educational attainment among Jordanians. The analysis is based on...