This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in … Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee … populations and their type of accommodation, I find that an increase in the population share of refugees increases the vote share …

This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …

This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …

refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social …). Using a unique dataset on refugees, we leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously … assigned to live in specific counties. We find that high initial local unemployment negatively affects refugees' economic and …