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The effect of early childhood education and care services on the social integration of refugee families

Gambaro, Ludovica; Neidhöfer, Guido; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2020

Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This … paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting regional … parents' integration. We find a significant and substantial positive effect, in particular on the social integration of …

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Scared straight? : threat and assimilation of refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2023

This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with...

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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 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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Discrimination, narratives and family history : an experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children

Barron, Kai; Harmgart, Heike; Huck, Steffen; Schneider, … - 2020

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in 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...

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Gender role changes and their impacts on Syrian women refugees in Berlin in light of the Syrian crisis

Habib, Nisren - 2018

Gender roles of Syrian women started to shift in 2011, in light of the Syrian conflict. This shift was a response to the difficult situations which Syrian women faced inside Syria as well as in the neighboring countries to which they fled in the attempt to find safer living conditions. However,...

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Belonging or estrangement : the European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity

Prömel, Christopher - 2021

This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are allocated to different counties by state authorities...

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The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration

Gallegos Torres, Katia - 2021

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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Local integration as a durable solution? : the case of Rwandan refugees in Uganda

Ahimbisibwe, Frank; Ingelaere, Bert; Vancluysen, Sarah - 2017

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Refugees and social capital : evidence from Northern Lebanon

Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2020

Despite numerous studies on the social and political impact of refugees in Europe, we have very little systematic evidence on the impact of refugee settlement on social cohesion in the developing world. Using data gathered in Northern Lebanon, we show that increased salience of the "refugee...

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The social consequences of the increase in refugees to Germany 2015-2016

Giesselmann, Marco; Brady, David; Naujoks, Tabea - 2021

More than one million refugees migrated to Germany in 2015-2016. The increase in refugees was rapid, visible and controversial, and varied substantially across German districts. Therefore, the increase provides unique leverage for analyzing the consequences of immigration and ethnolinguistic...

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