Replication Data for: Asylum Recognition Rates in Western Europe - Their Determinants, Variation and Lack of Convergence, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 49 (1), 2005, pp. 43-66

Substantial variation in recognition rates for asylum claims from the same countries of origin subjects refugees to unfair and discriminatory treatment. This article demonstrates the extent of variation and lack of convergence over the period from 1980 to 1999 across Western European destination countries. Refugee interest groups also suspect that political and economic conditions in destination countries, as well as the number of past asylum claims, unduly affect recognition rates. This article estimates the determinants of asylum recognition rates. Origin-specific recognition rates vary, as they should, with the extent of political oppression, human rights violations, interstate armed conflict, and events of genocide and politicide in countries of origin. Recognition rates for the full-protection status are lower only in times of high unemployment in destination countries. Such rates are also lower if many asylum seekers from a country of origin have already applied for asylum in the past.

来自同一来源国（countries of origin）的难民（refugees）所提交的庇护申请（asylum claims），其认定率存在显著差异，这令难民遭受不公平且歧视性的待遇。本文阐明了1980年至1999年间，西欧接收国（Western European destination countries）的庇护申请认定率差异程度与缺乏统一性的现状。难民利益团体亦怀疑，接收国的政治与经济状况、过往庇护申请总规模，会不当干预庇护认定率的制定。本文对庇护认定率的决定因素展开了估算。正如合理预期，来源国专属的认定率会随来源国国内政治压迫程度、侵犯人权行为、国家间武装冲突、种族灭绝与政治屠杀事件的发生情况而发生变化。仅当接收国失业率高企时，完全保护身份（full-protection status）的认定率才会降低；若某来源国过往已有大量寻求庇护者（asylum seekers）提交过庇护申请，此类认定率同样会走低。