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 …

mass migration of Syrian refugees to Turkey to identify the effect of migrants on firm performance and market structure. We …

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 …

recent refugees? What is the relative importance of socioemotional skills in refugees' language learning process? Given the …), we further ask whether socioemotional skills may compensate for refugees' resource disadvantages. Empirically, we rely on …

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 …

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on 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 …