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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 …

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Refugees welcome? : understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-foreigner hate crimes in Germany

Entorf, Horst; Lange, Martin - 2019

-born inhabitants that face large-scale immigration of asylum seekers witness the strongest upsurge in hate crime. Economically deprived …

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High-profile crime and perceived public safety : evidence from Cologne's new year's eve in 2015

Lange, Martin; Schmidt, Alexander - 2023

This study analyses the impact of a high-profile crime event on perceived public safety. At the 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne (NYE), Germany, refugees allegedly committed over a thousand crimes, ranging from theft to sexual assault. The widespread media coverage of these incidents...

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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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Historic sex-ratio imbalances predict female participation in the market for politicians

Grant, Iris; Kesternich, Iris; Steckenleiter, Carina; … - 2018

We analyze the long-term effects of gender imbalances on female labor force participation, in particular in the market …

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Child penalties in labour market skills

Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Battisti, Michele - 2024

persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to …

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Skills, job application strategies, and the gender wage gap : evidence from online freelancing

Teutloff, Ole; Stenzhorn, Eliza; Kässi, Otto - 2025

This paper examines how worker skills and job application behavior contribute to the gender wage gap on a major online … freelancing platform. We observe significant occupational sorting by gender, with women over-represented in lower-paying project … categories and tending to earn less than men even within the same categories. The unexplained gender wage gap conditional on …

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Immigration and the evolution of local cultural norms

Schmitz, Sophia; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019

supply and that this holds within household. We provide additional evidence on stated gender norms, West-East friendships …

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Immigration, female labour supply and local cultural norms

Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Weinhardt, Felix - 2022

women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender …

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Combating online hate speech : the impact of legislation on Twitter

Andres, Raphaela; Slivko, Olga - 2021

We analyze the impact of the Network Enforcement Act, the first regulation which aims at restraining hate speech on large social media platforms. Using a difference-in- differences framework, we measure the causal impact of the German law on the prevalence of hateful content on German Twitter....

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