Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting …

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on … the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state elections in an Austrian state in September … percent of communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, exposure to refugees varied at the local level. To account …

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

Many countries have reduced refugee admissions in recent years, in part due to fears that refugees and asylum seekers … increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the … consequences of refugee resettlement on crime. We leverage a natural experiment in the United States, where an Executive Order by …

, 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 …

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …

the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people’s far right … unemployed parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses differences in unemployment levels … between East and West Germany, both before and after reunification, to investigate a causal relationship. Instrumental …

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We …

This paper analyses job separations in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel spanning from 1984 to … of job separations in Germany. It brings to light some patterns of separations that have hitherto been unexplored. The …, particularly in the event of exogenous shocks. Targeting minorities in the face of a major shock of the sort experienced in Germany …