capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …

This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly … economic assimilation. Our evidence suggests that refugees exert more assimilation effort in response to local threat, but that …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

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 … line with the contact hypothesis, living in a high refugee migration district reduced concerns about immigration by 3 pp …

The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database includes data on migration policies for 33 OECD countries and …) "Measuring Immigration Policies: The IMPIC-Database", European Political Science (forthcoming). When using the data, please cite …

spending on immigrants and focus on natives' welfare instead. However, most research on the so-called immigration-welfare nexus …Populist radical right-wing parties across Europe garner support for welfare chauvinistic promises to limit government … does not study welfare chauvinism but instead focuses on generalized support for the welfare state. Using Swedish register …