International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given … migration regime is inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict … immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made …

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 … from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the …

Sweden in 2015, and the calculations account for refugees' age, years since immigration, and country of origin. The estimated …This study estimates the fiscal consequences of receiving refugees, over the refugees' lifetime. It uses data from … capita for refugees from the countries of origin for which labor market performance has historically been the strongest, to …

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 …

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 … from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the …

localities with a greater shareof Greek refugees in 1923 display higher level of prosperity and industrialization sixty … yearsafter the event. These long-run benefits of refugees appear to be driven by the provision of newagricultural know-how and …. The economic gains of the resettle-ment were lower in places where refugees were clustered in separate enclaves and where …

International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given … migration regime is inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict … immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made …

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 …

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 examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We …