This paper provides a wide-ranging analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the recent refugee crisis. The paper first reviews the institutional framework regulating asylum policies and elaborates on how European countries interpret and put into practice these regulations. Second, it describes the key features of the current refugee crisis, mainly in terms of the distributions by routes of entry, country of origin and country of destination. Next, the paper compares the labour market outcomes of economic migrants and refugees by estimating the gap in their employment probabilities (using past refugee waves). Finally, it discusses the economics of refugee migration focusing on the economic and political trade-offs of asylum policies and emphasizing the benefits from coordination among European countries. To succeed in these heterogeneous tasks, the authors make use of several sources of data: the UNHCR Population Statistics, Frontex Data, the European Union Labor Force Survey (EULFS) and the German Ministry for Immigration and Refugees Survey.

Discussion of "On the economics and politics of refugee migration by Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, Luigi Minale and Uta Schonberg"

Trigari, Antonella
2017

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This paper provides a wide-ranging analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the recent refugee crisis. The paper first reviews the institutional framework regulating asylum policies and elaborates on how European countries interpret and put into practice these regulations. Second, it describes the key features of the current refugee crisis, mainly in terms of the distributions by routes of entry, country of origin and country of destination. Next, the paper compares the labour market outcomes of economic migrants and refugees by estimating the gap in their employment probabilities (using past refugee waves). Finally, it discusses the economics of refugee migration focusing on the economic and political trade-offs of asylum policies and emphasizing the benefits from coordination among European countries. To succeed in these heterogeneous tasks, the authors make use of several sources of data: the UNHCR Population Statistics, Frontex Data, the European Union Labor Force Survey (EULFS) and the German Ministry for Immigration and Refugees Survey.
2017
2017
Trigari, Antonella
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