The authors exploit the random settlement policy for refugees in Denmark between 1986-1998 to examine the effect of locations on refugees’ wages. During this period, the Danish government assigned 80,000 refugees across 271 municipalities, in proportion to local...
JDC Literature Review
Results for: 2018
Big Data, Big Promises: Revisiting Migration Statistics in Context of the Datafication of Everything
The authors argue that we are witnessing the “datafication” of mobility and migration management across the world, driven by the digitization of data that can be searched, exchanged, linked, and analyzed with unprecedented scope and efficiency. Big Data is promoted as...
Big Data Solutions in Forced Migration: Innovations in Analytics to Promote Humane, Sustainable Responses to Forced Migration
This report highlights the potential for big data analytics to inform responses to forced migration, by supplying accurate real-time data on forced migration flows and the needs of displaced people. Big data also offer the potential to understand the causes of forced...
Promoting Labour Market Integration of Refugees with Trade Preferences: Beyond the EU-Jordan Compact
A new approach to refugee protection is gaining ground, which advocates for a shift from humanitarian assistance in camps towards a developmental model that encourages economic self-reliance and integration of refugees in countries of first asylum. This approach is...
Unpacking (and Re-Packing) the Refugees Compact Experiment: Lessons From Jordan Two Years On
The London Compact Agreements encapsulated host country commitments to integrate refugees into their labor markets, conditional upon significant increases in donor funding, concessional loans and market access. The refugee compacts represented a paradigm shift by (a)...
Learning from the Jordan Compact
At the 2016 donor conference in London, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey committed to improving economic opportunities for Syrian refugees; and Jordan announced a compact to provide 200,000 work permits for Syrian refugees. By January 2018, 80,000 work permits were...
Kakuma as a Marketplace
This report aims to understand Kakuma as a potential market and identify business opportunities and challenges for the private sector, including commercial firms, social enterprises and local entrepreneurs. Based on a survey of 1,400 households in the refugee camp...
Refugees and Their Money: The Business Case for Providing Financial Services to Refugees
This study assesses the demand for financial services in refugee populations in Rwanda and estimates the business case for financial institutions to provide these services. The report makes the case that refugees have a strong need for comprehensive financial services...
Leaving, Staying or Coming Back? Migration Decisions During the Northern Mali Conflict
This paper makes use of high frequency panel data from mobile phone interviews to analyze: (a) the characteristics of refugees, IDPs, and returnees during the recent crisis in Northern Mali; (b) willingness of IDPs and refugees to return to their place of origin,...
Returning Home after Civil War: Food Security and Nutrition among Burundian Households
This paper investigates the food security and nutritional status of formerly displaced households (HHs) after return to Burundi, and tests whether it is the duration of displacement that matters for current welfare (divergence process) or the time lapsed since...