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- Andersson, Henrik, et al.
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Do Asylum-seekers Respond to Policy Changes? Evidence from the Swedish-Syrian Case
- 2022
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. - Chichester, United Kingdom : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0347-0520 .- 1467-9442.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Do asylum-seekers respond to destination country policy changes, and to what extent? We approach this question by using high-frequency data and focus on a sudden liberalization in Swedish policy toward Syrian asylum-seekers, which implied permanent instead of temporary residence. We show a clear and fast, yet temporary, increase in Syrian asylum applications in Sweden after the policy change. Also, the policy caused a shift, not limited to the short-term, in the share of individuals arriving without family, and consequently in the share applying for family reunification. Our study adds quasi-experimental evidence to the literature on inter-country asylum-flows and migration policy.
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