Does Granting Refugee Status to Family-Reunified Women Improve Their Integration?
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Does Granting Refugee Status to Family-Reunified Women Improve Their Integration? / Hasager, Linea.
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Does Granting Refugee Status to Family-Reunified Women Improve Their Integration?
AU - Hasager, Linea
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In most countries, men are the principal asylum applicants, while women are admitted through family-reunification procedures. Family reunification implies that women's residence permits are contingent on remaining married to their husbands. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID) Design, I document that granting asylum to family-reunified women improves their economic integration, increases the probability of divorce and decreases their risk of being victims of violence. I find significant impacts on victimization and economic integration regardless of whether the woman remains married or not. I propose that the results can be explained by a reduction in uncertainty about residency and an increase in female bargaining power when the women are granted an autonomous asylum status.
AB - In most countries, men are the principal asylum applicants, while women are admitted through family-reunification procedures. Family reunification implies that women's residence permits are contingent on remaining married to their husbands. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID) Design, I document that granting asylum to family-reunified women improves their economic integration, increases the probability of divorce and decreases their risk of being victims of violence. I find significant impacts on victimization and economic integration regardless of whether the woman remains married or not. I propose that the results can be explained by a reduction in uncertainty about residency and an increase in female bargaining power when the women are granted an autonomous asylum status.
M3 - Working paper
BT - Does Granting Refugee Status to Family-Reunified Women Improve Their Integration?
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