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This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting … consumption of foreign media. Lastly, I find that changes in ethnic identity coincide with the political polarization of migrants …
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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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Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on native wages & labor supply. We operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in various models of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions for this effect in terms of estimable statistics....
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redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …
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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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Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on resident wages & labor supply. We operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in a model of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions for this effect in terms of estimable statistics. An...
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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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