During the first half of the 1990s, Germany received roughly 700,000 refugees fleeing ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia. By 2000, the majority of refugees had returned to their home country or territories of the former Yugoslavia. The authors exploit...
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Displacement and Development: Long Term Impacts of the Partition of India
This paper examines the impact of refugee flows, following the 1947 Partition of British India, on long-term agricultural development in receiving districts in India. The authors employ a difference-in-differences approach for a subset of districts for which...
German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention
This paper presents empirical analysis of the long-term impact of highly educated Jewish scientists who had fled Nazi Germany on scientific innovation in the United States (US). In 1933 the Nazis introduced legislation requiring all non-Aryans to be removed from the...
Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia
This paper examines the long-term impact of the forced migration of French Protestants (Huguenots) from France to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1685. The author estimates the impact of the Huguenots refugees on the productivity of textile manufactories in Prussia more than a...
The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities: A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics
The paper examines 49 empirical studies that estimate the impact of forced displacement on host communities. The reviewed studies cover 17 major forced displacement crises occurring between 1922 and 2015, to host countries at different levels of economic development...
Assessing the Economic Impacts of Internal Displacement: Conceptual Framework
Estimating the economic impact of internal displacement on affected people, countries and regions would help make the case for increased country-led investments in risk reduction and durable solutions. However, a systematic, quantitative estimate of the overall impact...
Does Aid Reduce Anti-refugee Violence? Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Lebanon, a country with a population of 4.5 million, has received more than a million refugees since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011. The majority of Syrian refugees live in individual accommodation in Lebanese towns. Existing theory and policy debates...
Migration in Libya: A Spatial Network Analysis
Libya is both a transit hub for legal and illegal migration as well as a destination country for international migrants, including refugees. This paper provides an empirical assessment of migration patterns to, within, and from Libya during 2017 and 2018. The analysis...
Blessing or burden? Impacts of refugees on businesses and the informal economy
The authors examine the impact of the sudden arrival of more than three million Syrian refugees on the behavior of firms in Turkey. This case is useful to investigate causal effects because: (a) the timing and scale of the refugee inflow were exogenous to economic...
Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A CrossSurvey Imputation Exercise for Chad
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and consequently poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper examines the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, by...