The impact of a sudden, mass influx of forced migrants on the hosting economy is
understudied and not well understood. Using a household panel data set for the Kagera …

This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section
1 describes the trends in asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a …

The current European Union (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 …

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 …

Little theoretical or empirical work examines migration policy in the developing world. We
develop and test a theory that distinguishes the drivers of policy reform and factors …

The ongoing refugee and migrant crisis in Europe has accelerated the need to find answers
for refugee movements. Refugees, Regionalism and Responsibility examines regional …

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987–2017 and establishes
several stylized facts about refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still …

Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, international economic cooperation has flourished
on many issues. The Reciprocal Trade Agreements program of the United States laid the …

In recent decades, the rights of the child have become a central focus of evolving refugee
law, as the human rights community has recognized an increasing number of children in the …

In recent years, economic theories have been used to examine asylum provision by non‐
persecutor countries. Unfortunately, the nature of the analyses makes the results …