-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …

Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across Member States. We draw on previous theoretical work to simulate how … a system of tradable refugee-admission quotas coupled with a matching mechanism assigning refugees to their preferred … destinations and destinations to their preferred types of refugees would give more flexibility to Member States while respecting …

on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We …

After the end of World War II in 1945, millions of refugees arrived in what in 1949 became the Federal Republic of … dissolved in 1949. The spatial discontinuity arose because the US zone admitted refugees during the 1945-1949 occupation period … refugees in the former US zone. We estimate that exposure to the arrival of refugees raised income per capita by around 13% and …

This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in … Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee … populations and their type of accommodation, I find that an increase in the population share of refugees increases the vote share …

effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting … in exogeneous variations in the number of refugees per county within and across states. Our estimates suggest that …

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 … for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never …

important factors to determine an individual's willingness to interact with refugees. …

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 …: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment …