The Economic Impact of Syrian Refugees on Host Countries: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Turkey

Semih Tumen

American Economic Review, 2016, vol. 106, issue 5, 456-60

Abstract: The Syrian Conflict generated forced immigration from northern Syria to southeastern Turkey. Arrival of refugees resembles a natural experiment, which offers good opportunities to study the economic impact of immigration. I study three main outcomes: labor markets, consumer prices, and housing rents. I document moderate employment losses among native informal workers, which suggests that they are partly substituted by refugees. Prices of the items produced in informal labor intensive sectors declined due to labor cost advantages generated by refugee inflows. Finally, refugee inflows increased the rents of higher quality housing units, while there is no effect on lower quality units.

JEL-codes: F22 J15 J46 J61 O15 R23 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161065
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