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of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In … are more likely to believe that refugees are a resource for the economy and the culture, viewing them as an opportunity … rather than a risk. Refugees living in these areas report better health and feel less exposed to xenophobia. …
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We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and …
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This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …
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Syrian refugee, randomizing components of his description (N=662). The main treatment describes the refugee as being aware of … and empathetic towards potential Germans' worries about cultural change, costs and violence associated with refugee … important factors to determine an individual's willingness to interact with refugees. …
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and the determinants of these sentiments is presented. Natives in countries that receive predominantly refugee migrants …
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prominent events - is also to discover for life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany. …
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We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
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health by exploiting a Spatial Dispersal Policy that quasi-randomly resettled refugees across neighborhoods from 1986 to 1998 …. Refugees allocated to low-income neighborhoods had a 12 percent higher risk of having developed a lifestyle related disease 8 …
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We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare of a population is determined both by the...
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Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the German publics' preferences for education …
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