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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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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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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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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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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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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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We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200...
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