Refugees from Ukraine value job opportunities over welfare.

ABSTRACT: Understanding refugees' destination choices is key to designing appropriate policies, but little is known about this beyond correlational patterns and the effects of isolated policy changes. To derive causal evidence on how destination country characteristics affect refugees' destination choices, we conducted a forced-choice conjoint experiment among 3,348 Ukrainian refugees across Europe. In the survey experiment, refugees repeatedly chose between two hypothetical countries that varied on eight relevant attributes. Ukrainian refugees are uniquely suited to study the relative importance of different host country attributes as they have the right to choose in which member state of the European Union they apply for temporary protection. We find that job opportunities are a much stronger driv

SUBMITTER: Adema J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12358867 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature