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The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...
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Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal effects of the size and composition of local co-national networks on formal labor market access of...
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This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census data from 1939 to 1970, we show that the shock had a...
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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 …
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regions and regions with a legacy of anti-foreigner hate crimes are also found to be prone to hate crime against refugees …
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Following one of the largest displacements in human history, almost eight million forced migrants arrived in West Germany after WWII. We study empirically how the settlement location of migrants affected their economic, social and political integration in West Germany. We first document large...
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, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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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 …
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examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants – refugees and economic immigrants – in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …
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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 …
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