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-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 "political refugees" were eligible for refugee-targeted aid, but … only after 1953. We combine several approaches to address identification issues resulting from the fact that refugees …
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How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual-level panel data for the years 2012–2018, I show that after 2015 concerns about immigration increased by about 21 pp. and support for extreme right-wing parties by about 1.7 pp. These...
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Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This …
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that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do not discriminate at all, suggesting that a family history of refugee … status can generate solidarity with new refugees. We also find that parents' narratives about the refugee crisis are …
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The labor market integration of asylum seekers remains a contested issue. Using the EU-Labor-Force-Survey, we characterize the state of asylum seekers’ labor market integration in Europe, and provide representative statistics on several dimensions of integration. We compare asylum seekers to...
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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 …
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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 …
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