Refugees’ Self-Selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu

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“…I contribute to the literature through the use of individual-level and nationally representative data for both the asylum seekers in Germany and the home-country population. Empirical support provided by Aksoy and Poutvaara (2019) highlights the favorable selection of refugees and complements my findings for other asylum destination countries. Their main contribution is to extend the analysis to other destination (or transit) countries of the recent refugee arrival in Europe.…”

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Self-selection of Asylum Seekers: Evidence From Germany

Guichard

2020

Demography

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I examine the pattern of selection on education of asylum seekers recently arrived in Germany from five key source countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Iraq, Serbia, and Syria. The analysis relies on original individual-level data collected in Germany combined with surveys conducted at origin. The results reveal a positive pattern of selection on education for asylum seekers who were able to flee Iraq and Syria, and the selection is neutral for individuals seeking asylum from Afghanistan and negative for asylum seekers from Albania and Serbia. I provide an interpretation of these patterns based on differences in the expected length of stay at destination, the migration costs faced by asylum seekers to reach Germany, and the size of migration networks at destination.

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Self-selection of Asylum Seekers: Evidence From Germany

Guichard

2020

Demography

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“…During the recent refugee crisis, the Eastern Mediterranean route was the primary gateway to Europe. Migrants who entered the European Union (Bulgaria or Greece) via Turkey by land or sea then travelled through Western Balkan countries -Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 11 Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia -with the aim of reaching the Western Europe (Aksoy and Poutvaara, 2019).…”

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“…The response rates were very high. 14 This alleviates concerns about selection bias in participating in the surveys (see Aksoy and Poutvaara, 2019 for the details and the sampling strategy of the survey).…”

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Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

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“…However, unobserved characteristics may also be associated with immigrant economic or educational selectivity over and above absolute attainment (e.g., Lewin-Epstein et al 2003;Feliciano and Lanuza 2017;Engzell and Ichou 2019). Selection is intended to proxy for unobserved characteristics such as drive or motivation, yet Polavieja, Fernández-Reino, and Ramos (2018) found a mixed picture for immigrants' motivation selection, reinforcing the argument that people "select" into contexts in which they will do best (Aksoy and Poutvaara 2019). Such self-sorting highlights the need to take account of destination countries' institutional and economic context when attempting to identify the role of policies for immigrant labor market outcomes.…”

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Which Integration Policies Work? The Heterogeneous Impact of National Institutions on Immigrants’ Labor Market Attainment in Europe

Platt

Polavieja

Radl

2021

International Migration Review

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Can specific policies support the economic integration of immigrants? Despite the crucial importance of this question, existing evidence is inconclusive. Using data from the European Social Survey, we estimate the effects of integration and anti-discrimination policies, alongside social expenditure and labor market regulation, on the labor market performance of 6,176 non-European immigrants across 23 European countries. We make three contributions: 1) we investigate the distinct role of discrete policy areas for labor market integration outcomes, 2) we allow for heterogeneous effects of policies on immigrants with different characteristics, and 3) we examine immigrants’ occupational attainment while accounting for their selection into employment. We find that immigrants’ employment chances are negatively associated with national levels of expenditure on welfare benefits but positively associated with policies facilitating immigrant access to social security. We also find that labor market rigidity is negatively associated with immigrants’ occupational attainment, but we find little evidence that policies aimed at supporting the transferability of immigrants’ qualifications promote their occupational success. Our results strongly suggest that anti-discrimination policies are important for immigrant economic integration. Yet while these policies are associated with greater occupational success for all female immigrants, they seem to be only positively associated with the occupational attainment of higher-skilled and non-Muslim immigrant men. As this article suggests, anti-discrimination policies can foster immigrants’ labor market success, yet these policies currently fail to reach those who face the strongest anti-immigrant sentiments — that is, unskilled male immigrants and Muslim immigrant men.

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Refugees’ Self-Selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?

Abstract: www.cesifo-group.de An electronic version of the paper may be downloaded from the ifo website: www.cesifo-group.de ifo Working Paper No. 289

Cited by 14 publications

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Self-selection of Asylum Seekers: Evidence From Germany

Self-selection of Asylum Seekers: Evidence From Germany

Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

Which Integration Policies Work? The Heterogeneous Impact of National Institutions on Immigrants’ Labor Market Attainment in Europe

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