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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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Majority-minority constellations : towards a group-differentiated approach
Koopmans, Ruud; Orgad, Liav - 2020
Multiculturalism has taken a life of its own, swinging too far in one direction. The authors claim that the rapidly changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights should also apply to majority groups. They present...
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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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Labor market integration of migrants : hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states
König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012
workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …
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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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Refugees welcome? : understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-foreigner hate crimes in Germany
Entorf, Horst; Lange, Martin - 2019
In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting the quasi-experimental assignment of asylum seekers to German regions, we estimate the causal effect of an unexpected and sudden change in the share...
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Love thy (elected) neighbor? : residential segregation, political representation and local public goods
Harjunen, Oskari; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne - 2021
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Decomposing discrimination: why a holistic approach to racism hides more than it reveals
Koopmans, Ruud - 2021
In recent debates on "race" and "racism", a broad definition has emerged that encompasses phenotypic appearance as well as ethnicity and religion. In addition, the "intersectional" interactions between these different characteristics are a core element of this holistic concept of racism. On the...
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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 … 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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Immigrant enclaves and crime
Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen - 2011
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