We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on … a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence or refugees fleeing wars in Ukraine or African countries. We also … employ a novel measure, the share donated in cash. While donations indicated less support for African and Ukrainian refugees …

and transferred to West Germany. This inflow increased the German population by almost 20%. Using variation across … counties I show that the settlement of refugees had a large and persistent effect on the size of the local population … that the refugee settlement increased aggregate income per capita by about 12% after 25 years and that the historical …

In 2015-2016 Germany experienced a wave of predominantly low-skilled refugee immigration. We evaluate its macroeconomic … substitutes in aggregate production leading to endogenous wage differentials. We simulate the dynamic effects of this refugee wave …

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees … data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a … threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and …

We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched … refugees to occupations with local labor shortages after basic training for those jobs. Leveraging the staggered roll … percentage points two years after. The policy was especially effective for male refugees and refugees with some secondary …

. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh … implications for social protection policies for the unemployed in low income countries and refugee populations globally …

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in … the country each year, and utilizing the staggered movement of refugees across provinces over time, we estimate … instrumental variables models that address potential endogeneity of the number of refugees and their location, and find that an …

Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in … the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in … obtained refugee status in Denmark on or after January 1, 1999. Using a regression discontinuity design around the cutoff date …

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …