How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual …

This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly … preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on German respondents, and construct a threat index … that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and economically …

We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany …: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment … not change significantly which can be traced back to widespread labor market rigidities in Germany. The isolation of labor …

More than one million refugees migrated to Germany in 2015-2016. The increase in refugees was rapid, visible and …

explores the potential economic consequences and transmission mechanisms resulting from the recent refugee migration to Germany …

that there exists positive skill selection among recently arrived refugees in Germany. …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 …

Germany between 1946 and 1961 who were acknowledged to be "political refugees" were eligible for refugee-targeted aid, but …-term outcomes of refugees who migrate as children and young adults. German Democratic Republic (GDR) refugees who escaped to West … only after 1953. We combine several approaches to address identification issues resulting from the fact that refugees …

In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in … regions and regions with a legacy of anti-foreigner hate crimes are also found to be prone to hate crime against refugees …