IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Syrian Refugees and Human Capital Accumulation of Working-age Native Children in Turkey' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17(4), 557-592.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14962

Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau, Marco Tabellini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14840

Asylum Recognition Rates in Europe: Persecution, Policies and Performance

Timothy J. Hatton

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 76, 102267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14821

Managing Refugee Protection Crises: Policy Lessons from Economics and Political Science

Dominik Hangartner, Matti Sarvimäki, Judith Spirig

published in: Journal of the Finnish Economic Association, 2021, 2(1), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14766

Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh, Paolo Verme

published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (12), 2819-2835

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14728

The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country

Pia Schilling, Steven Stillman

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102465

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14716

School Integration of Refugee Children: Evidence from the Largest Refugee Group in Any Country

Murat Güray Kirdar, Ismet Koc, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur

published as 'School Integration of Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85 102448.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14700

Adverse Working Conditions and Immigrants' Physical Health and Depression Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study in Greece

Nick Drydakis

published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2022, 95 (2), 539 - 556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14647

The Effect of 3.6 Million Refugees on Crime

Murat Güray Kirdar, Ivan Lopez Cruz, Betül Türküm

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 568 - 582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14606

Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

Theresa Beltramo, Hai-Anh H Dang, Ibrahima Sarr, Paolo Verme

published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2024, 52 (1), 94-113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14557

Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness: Impact on School Attendance of Refugee Children

Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, August 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14513

Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program

Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat Güray Kirdar, Murat Koyuncu, Quentin Stoeffler

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 168, 103266.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14466

The Making of a Lost Generation: Child Labor among Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Murat Güray Kirdar, Ismet Koc

published in: International Migration Review; 2024, 8 (3), 1075-1113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14267

Development Level of Hosting Areas and the Impact of Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes

Doğu Tan Aracı, Murat Demirci, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104132.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14267

Development Level of Hosting Areas and the Impact of Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes

Doğu Tan Aracı, Murat Demirci, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104132.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14260

Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model

Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14145

Language Training and Refugees' Integration

Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Iben Bolvig, Mette Foged, Linea Hasager, Giovanni Peri

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 23 June 2023 (adults) and as 'Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104840 (children / intergenerational effects)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14084

The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy

Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti, Mariapia Mendola

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 168, 104826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14066

Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey

Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin

pubished in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102607

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14039

The Effect of Refugees on Native Adolescents' Test Scores: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Pisa

Semih Tumen

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102633

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13969

Migration Shocks and Housing: Short-Run Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan

Ibrahim Alhawarin, Ragui Assaad, Ahmed Elsayed

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2021, 53, 101761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13953

Consequences of a Massive Refugee Influx on Firm Performance and Market Structure

Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Yusuf Kenan Bağır, Seyit Mümin Cilasun, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162, 103081.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13952

Network Sorting and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Chaotic Dispersal of the Viet Kieu

Christopher Parsons, Tyler Reysenbach, Jackline Wahba

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13933

Mobile Applications Aiming to Facilitate Immigrants' Societal Integration and Overall Level of Integration, Health and Mental Health: Does Artificial Intelligence Enhance Outcomes?

Nick Drydakis

published in: Computers in Human Behavior, 2021, 117, 106661

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13914

First Time around: Local Conditions and Multi-Dimensional Integration of Refugees

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, Felicitas Schikora

revised version published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 137, 103588

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13755

An Introduction to the Economics of Immigration in OECD Countries

Anthony Edo, Lionel Ragot, Hillel Rapoport, Sulin Sardoschau, Andreas Steinmayr, Arthur Sweetman

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1365-1403. .

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13627

The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality among Natives

Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat Güray Kirdar, Berna Tuncay

published as 'The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on Native Population Mortality' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102534

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13433

Refugees and the Educational Attainment of Natives

Colin P. Green, Jon Marius Vaag Iversen

published as 'Refugees and the educational attainment of natives: Evidence from Norway' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, 102258

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13337

Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children

Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter

revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (4), 1008–1016.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13145

Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Semih Tumen

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102603

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13018

Do Processing Times Affect the Distribution of Asylum Seekers across Europe?

Simone Bertoli, Herbert Brücker, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

revised version published as 'Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 93, 103771

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12903

Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany

Felix Stips, Krisztina Kis-Katos

published as 'The impact of co-national networks on asylum seekers' employment: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany.' in: PLOS One, 2020, 15 (8), e0236996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12860

Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements

Anna Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, Han Pham, Pierre-Louis Vézina

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156, 102818

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12858

Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon

Michalis Drouvelis, Bilal Malaeb, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 187, 176-191.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12822

Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?

Hai-Anh H Dang, Paolo Verme

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 653 - 679

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12800

Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara

revised version published as 'Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 152, 102681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12630

Conflicting Identities: Cosmopolitan or Anxious? Appreciating Concerns of Host Country Population Improves Attitudes Towards Immigrants

Tobias Heidland, Philipp Wichardt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12594

Does Integration Policy Integrate? The Employment Effects of Sweden's 2010 Reform of the Introduction Program

Haodong Qi, Nahikari Irastorza, Henrik Emilsson, Pieter Bevelander

published as 'Integration policy and refugees’ economic performance: Evidence from Sweden’s 2010 reform of the introduction programme' in: International Migration, 2021, 59 (4), 42 - 58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12551

Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the United States Refugee Ban

Daniel Masterson, Vasil Yasenov

published in: American Political Science Review, 2021, 115 (3), 1066 - 1073

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12469

Immigration and Crimes against Natives: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany

Yue Huang, Michael Kvasnicka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12412

Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia

Dany Bahar, Cem Özgüzel, Andreas Hauptmann, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, 2, 287-304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12235

Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools

Semih Tumen

published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 181, 154-159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12050

The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market

Ege Aksu, Refik Erzan, Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12047

The 2015 European Refugee Crisis and Residential Housing Rents in Germany

Kathleen Kürschner Rauck, Michael Kvasnicka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11905

Is Quick Formal Access to the Labor Market Enough? Refugees' Labor Market Integration in Belgium

Dries Lens, Ive Marx, Suncica Vujic

revised version published as 'Double Jeopardy: How Refugees Fare in One European Labor Market' in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2019, 10 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11869

The Impact of Low-Skill Refugees on Youth Education

Semih Tumen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11834

Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks

Tilman Brück, Kai M. Dunker, Neil T.N. Ferguson, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11613

Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-Run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement

Elie Murard, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11612

Refugee Admissions and Public Safety: Are Refugee Settlement Areas More Prone to Crime?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cynthia Bansak, Susan Pozo