

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration (LAMFOR)
This project provided quantitative evidence on the consequences of forced displacement for those who are displaced, their hosts and those who return home after the end of the conflict. The project focused on the case of Tanzania as the host country of refugees and Burundi as the main source country of refugees.
Principal Investigator
Carlos Vargas-Silva
Other researchers
Sonja Fransen
Craig Loschmann
Melissa Siegel
Isabel Ruiz
Funder
UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA)
Duration
2013 - 2015
Project Publications
"The impact of refugee repatriation on receiving communities" (I. Ruiz and C. Vargas-Silva), Journal
of Economic Geography, 2020. Download
"The impact of refugee experiences on education: evidence from Burundi” (S. Fransen, M. Siegel and C. Vargas-Silva), IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 8(6), 2018. Download
"Who reintegrates? The constituents of reintegration of displaced populations" (S. Fransen and O. Bilgili),
Population, Space and Place, 24(6), 2018. Download
"Return migration and economic outcomes in the conflict context" (S. Fransen, I. Ruiz, C. Vargas-Silva),
World Development, 95: 196-210, 2017. Download
"The labour market consequences of hosting refugees" (I. Ruiz and C. Vargas-Silva),
Journal of Economic Geography, 16(3): 667-694, 2016. Download
"The labour market impacts of forced migration" (I. Ruiz and C. Vargas-Silva),
American Economic Review, 105(5): 581-586, 2015. Download
Blogs and Policy Reports
Twenty Years Later the Refugees are Back, link here.
“The Consequences of Refugee Return.” link here.
“The Consequences of Hosting Refugees." link here.
“Conflict, Displacement and Education.” link here.
Other Related Publications
"The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks: A gender perspective" (I.Ruiz and C. Vargas-Silva), Review of Development Economics, 22: 1461-1488, 2018. Download
"Remittances sent to and from the forcibly displaced" (C. Vargas-Silva),
Journal of Developing Studies, 53(11): 1835-1848, 2017. Download
"The consequences of forced migration for host Communities in Africa" (I. Ruiz and C. Vargas-Silva),
Revue d'Economie du Developpement, 25(3): 135-154. Download
"Forced up or down? The impact of forced migration on social status" (I. Ruiz, M. Siegel and C. Vargas-Silva),
Journal of Refugee Studies, 8(2): 183-201, 2015. Download
"The economics of forced migration" (I. Ruiz and C. Vargas-Silva),
Journal of Developing Studies, 49(6): 772-783, 2013. Download