Immigration, Housing Rents, and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Balkan, Binnur; Tok, Elif Ozcan; Torun, Hüzeyfe; Tümen, Semih

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3205899

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“…Using a Difference-in-Differences approach, Alhawarin, Assaad, and Elsayed (2021) find that one standard deviation increase in the change in Syrian households increases real rents by 13% in Jordan, also relying on HEIS data. Our results are also comparable with those found in the case of Turkey, where Balkan, Tok, Torun, and Tumen (2018) show that housing rents increased in the order of 2% to 5% in the refugee hosting regions. Moreover, Depetris-Chauvin and Santos (2018) find that a 10% increase in IDP inflows in a given city and quarter in Colombia is associated with an increase in low-income rentals by 0.15% and a decrease in high-income rental prices by 0.39%.…”

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“…Van Vuuren, Kjellander, and Nilsson ( 2019) Sweden (Booli.se) Walking distance to the 4% drop in apartment prices within a 5-minute building sites announced walking distance from the building sites for refugees. to host refugees Balkan, Tok, Torun, and Tumen (2018) Turkey (SILC) Region hosting refugees Housing rents increased in the order of 2% to 5% in the hosting regions.…”

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“…1 Also a few papers examine firm entry and performance in Turkey following the Syrian refugee shock (Akgündüz, Van den Berg, & Hassink, 2018;Altındag, Bakis, & Rozo, 2020). Another strand of this fast evolving literature has examined the impact of refugees on the well-being of the host communities; for example on housing (Balkan, Tok, Torun, & Tumen, 2018;Rozo & Sviatschi, 2021), on food and prices (Alix-Garcia & Saah, 2010;Balkan & Tumen, 2016), and on the educational outcomes of native children and youth (Assaad, Ginn, & Saleh, 2018;Tumen, 2021). 2 An interesting, yet understudied aspect of hosting refugees is the impact on the mobility dynamics of national citizens.…”

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Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving In or Moving Out?

Wahba

El-Mallakh

2023

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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This paper examines the impact of massive refugee inflows on the internal mobility of the host's country population. We rely on panel data from before and after the Syrian war and exploit the geographical distribution of Syrians across Jordanian subdistricts. Using Difference-in-Differences, we find that the Syrian inflows increased Jordanian residential mobility. In particular, native outflows of the camp hosting areas increased by 27%. The increased residential mobility out of the camp areas seems to be triggered by an increase in rents and a crowding out of Jordanian students by Syrians in schools. Our results also show that the Syrian presence increased Jordanians' job location mobility into the camp areas. These findings are robust to controlling for refugees' locational sorting using instrumental variables, while auxiliary placebo regressions confirm that pre-existing trends in outcomes are not driving the results. We also provide a thorough discussion on the impact of refugees versus broader impacts of the Syrian war.

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Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving In or Moving Out?

Wahba

El-Mallakh

2023

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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“…This perception might be even worsened by the staggering numbers of Syrian refugees registered in Turkey, 3.5M in 2018 18,49 . This well documented negative perception 50,51 may trigger segregation mechanisms, aimed at reducing as much as possible interactions and contacts between Syrian refugees and Turkish citizens.…”

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Reducing measles risk in Turkey through social integration of Syrian refugees

Bosetti¹,

Poletti²,

Stella³

et al. 2019

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Turkey hosts almost 3.5M refugees and has to face a humanitarian emergency of unprecedented levels. We use mobile phone data to map the mobility patterns of both Turkish and Syrian refugees, and use these patterns to build data-driven computational models for quantifying the risk of epidemics spreading for measles -a disease having a satisfactory immunization coverage in Turkey but not in Syria, due to the recent civil war -while accounting for hypothetical policies to integrate the refugees with the Turkish population. Our results provide quantitative evidence that policies to enhance social integration between refugees and the hosting population would reduce the transmission potential of measles by almost 50%, preventing the onset of widespread large epidemics in the country. Our results suggest that social segregation does not hamper but rather boosts potential outbreaks of measles to a greater extent in Syrian refugees but also in Turkish citizens, although to a lesser extent. This is due to the fact that the high immunization coverage of Turkish citizens can shield Syrian

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“…See Alix-Garcia andSaah (2009);Balkan et al (2015);Tumen (2016);Balkan and Tumen (2016); Al-Hawarin et al (2018). 5 See Dustmann et al (2019); Rozo and Vargas (2018).…”

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The Unintended Consequences of Deportations: Evidence from Firm Behavior in El Salvador

Rozo¹,

Bandiera²,

Dinarte³

et al. 2023

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Immigration, Housing Rents, and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving In or Moving Out?

Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving In or Moving Out?

Reducing measles risk in Turkey through social integration of Syrian refugees

The Unintended Consequences of Deportations: Evidence from Firm Behavior in El Salvador

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