This paper investigates the role of refugee-host interaction in influencing host community attitudes towards refugees in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia. The authors also explore the factors, other than contact, that shape attitudes of host communities towards refugees,...
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Local labor markets and the persistence of population shocks: evidence from West Germany, 1939–1970
This article examines the population effects of the forced migration of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. The population shock occurred unevenly across West Germany counties, ranging from 1.4 percent to 83 percent of...
Rival guests or defiant hosts? The local economic impact of hosting refugees
This article estimates the local economic cost of hosting humanitarian migrants (refugees, asylum seekers and subsidiary protection recipients) and the impact of refugee dispersal policies in France. Refugee dispersal policies—spreading the settlement of refugees...
Is It Merely a Labor Supply Shock? Impacts of Syrian Migrants on Local Economies in Turkey
Over 2.5 million Syrian refugees arrived in Turkey between 2012 and 2015, the majority settling in regions bordering Syria. This paper examines the effect of Syrian refugees on labor market outcomes for native workers in Turkey. In addition to the supply-side shock in...
Child Labour and the Arrival of Refugees: Evidence from Tanzania
Approximately one million refugees fled the genocides in Rwanda and Burundi and settled in the Kagera region of western Tanzania between 1993 and 1998. By 2004, ten years after the refugees’ arrival, about 400,000 refugees were still living in the Kagera region. This...
Living with the Neighbors: The Effect of Venezuelan Forced Migration on Wages in Colombia
This paper investigates the impact of Venezuelan migration on the labor market in Colombia between 2013 and 2019. By 2019, there were nearly 1.8 million Venezuelan migrants living in Colombia, increasing the share of Venezuelans living in Colombia relative to the...
The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
This paper analyzes the determinants of the location decisions of Venezuelan migrants and the effect of Venezuelan migrants on the labor market outcomes of Ecuadorian natives. In the first quarter of 2019, when this analysis was undertaken, more than 470,000...
The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration to Colombia: reconciling conflicting results
This paper examines the short-term effects of Venezuelan migration on wages and employment of native workers in Colombia. Between 2015 and 2019, Colombia received around 1.8 million displaced Venezuelans, increasing the country’s population by almost 4 percent....
The impact of mass migration of Syrians on the Turkish labor market
This paper estimates the effects of the Syrian refugee influx on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey. The authors use data from the end of 2015, when there were 2.5 million registered Syrian refugees in Turkey, almost all of whom were working in the...
Jobs, Crime and Votes: A Short-run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany
This paper examines the short-term effects of refugee arrivals on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior in Germany. Between 2014 and 2015, more than one million refugees arrived in Germany. The authors exploit exogeneous variations in the number of refugees per...