The Refugee/Asylum Seeker Chapter prepared for Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, Volume 1 Aimee Chin * University of Houston Kalena E. Cortes * Texas A&M University ABSTRACT This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other types of immigrants, and provides a new empirical analysis comparing refugees to other immigrants in the United States using a sample of immigrants recently granted legal permanent residency. Section 3 describes a conceptual framework on why investments in host-country-specific human capital might differ between refugees and other immigrants, and presents a new analysis of refugee economic integration in the United States using synthetic panel data. Section 4 synthesizes the literature on the impact of refugees on sending and receiving communities. Section 5 discusses some political economy issues surrounding refugees, and their implications for modeling host nations’ asylum policy choices. The chapter closes in Section 6 with suggestions for further research. JEL classifications: F22, J15, J61, O15 Keywords: refugees, asylees, asylum, migration * Email addresses are [email protected] (Aimee Chin) and [email protected] (Kalena E. Cortes). The corresponding author is Kalena E. Cortes. The authors are grateful to Michael Baima, Chris Biolsi, Alexander Tengolics, and Jeremy Twitchell for excellent research assistance, and to Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller for helpful comments and discussion. Any errors and omissions are solely the work of the authors.
The Refugee/Asylum Seeker
Jul 11, 2023
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