Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction … analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …

: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment …We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany … are banned from working in the first few months after arrival. This natural experiment allows isolating a pure immigration …

Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … 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 …

Despite numerous studies on the social and political impact of refugees in Europe, we have very little systematic … refugees, suggesting a negative impact of mass refugee settlement. However, this negative impact is driven exclusively by … respondents with no individual exposure to refugees. In fact, despite concerns that refugee settlements may result in local …

Do people blame refugees for negative events? We propose a novel experimental paradigm to measure discrimination in … responsibility attribution towards Arabic refugees. Participants in the laboratory experience a positive or negative income shock … draw. We find evidence for reverse discrimination: Natives attribute responsibility more favorably to refugees than to …