that there exists positive skill selection among recently arrived refugees in Germany. …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 …

large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in 2015-2016. Arriving refugees were dispersed across the country … offenders from refugees' origin countries. Yet, we find some indication of over-reporting. …

first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany … in other countries leading to a feedback on Germany. The paper provides a short overview over the basic model. The …

Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting … their perceived belonging to Germany. Further analyses uncover strong heterogeneities with respect to country of origin and …

How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual …

This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly … preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on German respondents, and construct a threat index … that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and economically …

We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany …: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment … not change significantly which can be traced back to widespread labor market rigidities in Germany. The isolation of labor …