Immigration and prices: quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey

Balkan, Binnur; Tümen, Semih

doi:10.1007/s00148-016-0583-2

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“…While the focus here is on the labor market impacts of refugee migration, the natural experiment approach in migration research can also be used to estimate the impact of immigration on many other outcomes, including consumer prices in the host region (and therefore the purchasing power of the native population), the prices of aid food, housing rents, educational outcomes, health and crime rates [8].…”

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The use of natural experiments in migration research

Tümen¹

2015

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The use of natural experiments in migration research

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2015

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“…For more details, seeCeritoglu et al (2015); Balkan and Tumen (forthcoming); andBalkan, Torun, and Tumen (2015).…”

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The Economic Impact of Syrian Refugees on Host Countries: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Turkey

Tümen

2016

American Economic Review

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The Syrian Conflict generated forced immigration from northern Syria to southeastern Turkey. Arrival of refugees resembles a natural experiment, which offers good opportunities to study the economic impact of immigration. I study three main outcomes: labor markets, consumer prices, and housing rents. I document moderate employment losses among native informal workers, which suggests that they are partly substituted by refugees. Prices of the items produced in informal labor intensive sectors declined due to labor cost advantages generated by refugee inflows. Finally, refugee inflows increased the rents of higher quality housing units, while there is no effect on lower quality units.

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“…After lagging behind many other fields of research, experimental methods are being increasingly applied in migration studies. Most of the attention to date has been given to natural (Balkan & Tumen, 2016;Bryan, Chowdhury, & Mobarak, 2014;Parsons & Vézina, 2016) and to field experiments (Ashraf, Aycinena, Martínez, & Yang, 2015;Hao, Houser, Mao, & Villevald, 2016;Mergo, 2016;Seshan & Yang, 2014). In contrast, true experiments are rare in migration research (but see McKenzie & Yang, 2012;and Mukherjee, Molina, & Adams, 2013).…”

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Migration decisions in the face of upheaval: An experimental approach

Baláž

Williams

2017

Population Space and Place

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The analysis of migration under conditions of potential economic and political upheaval is challenging because these undermine the institutional framework that underpins existing migration trajectories. Therefore, this paper demonstrates how an innovative experimental approach can be used to analyse migration decision making under disruptive scenarios of a deep economic crisis and the introduction of work permits. Such disruptions have particular resonance in Europe, which has experienced deep economic crises, as well as discussions of potential regulatory shifts in the European migration framework following the United Kingdom's Brexit referendum. Data were collected from a sample of 540 experimental participants, drawn from young adults (students and young working people) in nine European Union member states, and used to analyse their propensity to migrate under principles of uncertainty, incomplete information, and information overload. The findings indicate that a sharp rise in unemployment rates is more disruptive than the introduction of work permits.

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Immigration and prices: quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey

Cited by 125 publications

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The use of natural experiments in migration research

The use of natural experiments in migration research

The Economic Impact of Syrian Refugees on Host Countries: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Turkey

Migration decisions in the face of upheaval: An experimental approach

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