The Labor Market Impacts of Forced Migration
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The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration
One of the key consequences of civil conflict is forced migration. The United Nations Population Division (2013) suggests that from the total global stock of 232 million international migrants in 2013, about 16 million (6.8%) were refugees. Just recently, over 2 million Syrians have been displaced since the conflict started in March 2011 (UNHCR, 2013). The magnitude and frequency of forced disp...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20151110