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Refugee-specific government aid, institutional embeddedness and child refugees' economic success later in Life : evidence from post-WWII GDR refugees
Black, Sandra E.; Liepmann, Hannah; Remigereau, Camille; … - 2019
We exploit a unique historical setting to investigate how refugee-specific government aid affects the medium-term outcomes of refugees who migrate as children and young adults. German Democratic Republic (GDR) refugees who escaped to West Germany between 1946 and 1961 who were acknowledged to be...
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Refugees welcome? : understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-foreigner hate crimes in Germany
Entorf, Horst; Lange, Martin - 2019
In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting the quasi-experimental assignment of asylum seekers to German regions, we estimate the causal effect of an unexpected and sudden change in the share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975247
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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Scared straight? : threat and assimilation of refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2023
This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with...
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Do refugees impact crime? : causal evidence from large-scale refugee immigration to Germany
Lange, Martin; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2023
Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in 2015-2016. Arriving refugees were dispersed across the country based on a binding dispersal policy, yet we show that...
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The social consequences of the increase in refugees to Germany 2015-2016
Giesselmann, Marco; Brady, David; Naujoks, Tabea - 2021
More than one million refugees migrated to Germany in 2015-2016. The increase in refugees was rapid, visible and controversial, and varied substantially across German districts. Therefore, the increase provides unique leverage for analyzing the consequences of immigration and ethnolinguistic...
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A model-based analysis of the macroeconomic impact of the refugee migration to Germany
Stähler, Nikolai - 2017
By simulating various (labour market) integration scenarios with the aid of a New Keynesian DSGE model, this paper explores the potential economic consequences and transmission mechanisms resulting from the recent refugee migration to Germany. We find that the long-run costs and benefits for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632192
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Von der schulischen Segregation zur inklusiven Bildung? : die Wirkung der UN-Konvention über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen auf Bildungsreformen in Bayern und Schleswig-...
Blanck, Jonna M.; Edelstein, Benjamin; Powell, Justin J. W. - 2013
Im Jahre 2009 ist in Deutschland die UN Konvention über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen (UN-BRK) in Kraft … getreten, in welcher sich Deutschland verpflichtet, ein inklusives Bildungssystem zu gewährleisten. Dafür müssen die … gegliederten Schulsystem. Welche Barrieren bestehen bei der Umsetzung inklusiver Schulreformen in Deutschland? Wie können diese …
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Discrimination, narratives and family history : an experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children
Barron, Kai; Harmgart, Heike; Huck, Steffen; Schneider, … - 2020
We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do...
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Refugees and social capital : evidence from Northern Lebanon
Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2020
Despite numerous studies on the social and political impact of refugees in Europe, we have very little systematic evidence on the impact of refugee settlement on social cohesion in the developing world. Using data gathered in Northern Lebanon, we show that increased salience of the "refugee...
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