Is naturalization an effective tool to boost refugees' labor market integration? We address this novel empirical … citizen status allows refugees to close their gaps in labor market outcomes relative to non-refugee migrants while having non …

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on … percent of communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, exposure to refugees varied at the local level. To account … for the potential endogeneity in the distribution of refugees, I use pre-existing group accommodations as instrumental …

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees …

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of …

refugees' labour market performance. Specifically, we examine the employment effects of the 2010 reform of the introduction … program (known as IP), and how the effects vary depending on refugees' educational attainment. Given that the eligibility for … that exacerbate over time. The effects are significant and identical for male refugees, regardless of educational …

immigrant‐native employment and social insurance differentials by admission class and by years since entry. For refugees and …