This paper examines the relation between refugee movements and indicators of income, education, and life expectancy in sending and receiving countries. Countries which score low on the Human Development Index are more likely to experience conflict giving rise to internal displacement and refugee movements. Wealthier countries accept the better educated for permanent settlement, while admitting less-skilled manual workers and asylum seekers on a temporary basis.

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education life expectancy skilled labor refugee socioeconomic indicator human settlement asylum seeker income human development index