Refugees and Economic Migrants: Facts, policies and challenges

This eBook offers a brief summary of what economists have learnt about migration in several crucial areas of policymaking, and identifies most of the important questions that still remain to be answered.

Table of contents

1. Introduction: Refugees and Economic Migrants: Facts, policies and challenges
   • Francesco Fasani
2. The migration crisis and refugee policy in Europe
   • Tim Hatton
3. Efficient solidarity mechanisms in asylum policy
   • Jesus Fernandez-Huertas Moraga
4. Labour market integration of refugees in Norway
   • Bernt Bratsberg 
   • Oddbjørn Raaum 
   • Knut Røed
5. Immigration and the UK: Reflections after Brexit
   • Marco Alfano 
   • Christian Dustmann 
   • Tommaso Frattini
6. Skilled immigrants: Economic contribution and policy implications
   • Francesc Ortega 
   • Chad Sparber
7. The impact of immigration on health and health care: Evidence from the United Kingdom
   • Osea Giuntella 
   • Catia Nicodemo 
   • Carlos Vargas-Silva
8. Immigrants and crime
   • Paolo Pinotti
9. Education policy and migration
   • Lidia Farre 
   • Ryuichi Tanaka
10. The short- and long-run returns to international migration: Evidence from a lottery
    • John Gibson 
    • David McKenzie 
    • Steven Stillman
11. The global costs from migration barriers
    • Frédéric Docquier
12. Is a points system the best immigration policy?
    • Jennifer Hunt
13. On the piecemeal approach to immigration enforcement: Evidence from the United States
    • Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes 
    • Esther Arenas-Arroyo
14. Media exposure and international policymaking
    • Giovanni Facchini
15. A democratic dividend from emigration?
    • Hillel Rapoport
16. Does immigration affect election outcomes? Evidence from the United States
    • Anna Maria Mayda 
    • Giovanni Peri 
    • Walter Steingress