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The impact of natives' attitudes towards immigrants on their integration in the host country
Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2021
-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …
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The effect of language training on immigrants' economic integration : empirical evidence from France
Lochmann, Alexia; Rapoport, Hillel; Speciale, Biagio - 2017
migrants and refugees relative to family migrants, for men and individuals below the median age, and for individuals with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646944
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Does granting refugee status to family-reunified women improve their integration?
Hasager, Linea - 2023
In most countries, men are the principal asylum applicants, while women are admitted through family-reunification procedures. Family reunification implies that women's residence permits are contingent on remaining married to their husbands. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID)...
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Between fear mongers and Samaritans : does information provision affect attitudes towards the right of asylum in Germany?
Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2020 - This version: 1 July 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244491
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Immigrant narratives
Gehring, Kai; Adema, Joop; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022
Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants' role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced natural language processing tools with dictionaries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013418879
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On the economics and politics of refugee migration
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016
first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544179
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The (option-) value of overstaying
Méango, Romuald; Poinas, François - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309566
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The impact of welfare chauvinism on the results of right-wing populist voting in Germany after the refugee crisis
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Rafih, Pierre - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299813
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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees
Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018
making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the … reception of refugees. Although municipalities receive fiscal grants for hosting refugees, electoral incentives reduce the …-right political preferences. The results explain why is difficult to reach an equal redistribution of refugees across and within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898665
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012050798