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refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …
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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
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associated with accepting refugees, (iv) the share of Muslim asylum-seekers, and (v) the share of war refugees. We find that … providing information about the fiscal costs associated with accepting refugees, and about the share of Muslim refugees … share of Muslim refugees are 18 percentage points more likely to call for abolishing the right of asylum when informed about …
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Based on an extended welfare chauvinism concept that more systematically integrates the labor market and public finance aspects, this paper examines the impact of the refugee crisis − which culminated in the EU in 2015/16 − on changes in voting behavior in Germany (revealed in the two German...
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This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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prescribing interjurisdictional assignments of tasks for designing, financing and implementing services for refugees and their … geographic distribution have made municipalities and cities primarily responsible for solving problems of refugees' accommodation …
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of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In … more likely to believe that refugees are a resource for the economy and the culture, viewing them as an opportunity rather … than a risk. Refugees living in these areas report better health and feel less exposed to xenophobia. …
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their labor supply. Our findings suggest that stricter permanent residency rules, rather than incentivizing refugees' skill …
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European countries experienced a large increase in labor supply due to the influx of Ukrainian refugees after the 2022 …
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The paper is structured around three main contributions. First, it takes advantage of a unique survey on Afghan asylum seekers in Germany to provide novel descriptive insights into asylum seekers' beliefs about their outcomes and the associated intention to overstay. Second, it estimates asylum...
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