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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of...

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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...

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The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants : Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again

Borjas, George J. - 2013

This paper examines the evolution of immigrant earnings in the United States between 1970 and 2010. There are cohort effects not only in wage levels, with more recent cohorts having lower entry wages through 1990, but also in the rate of wage growth, with more recent cohorts experiencing less...

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Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates, within a common framework, the effects of four types of integration polices on the employment probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible identification strategy to evaluate the causal...

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Forced Migration and Refugees : Policies for Successful Economic and Social Integration

Bahar, Dany; Brough, Rebecca J.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The inflow of refugees and their subsequent integration can be an important challenge for both the refugees themselves and the host society. Policy interventions can improve the lives and economic success of refugees and of their communities. In this paper, we review the socioeconomic...

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Diversity and Discrimination in the Classroom

Anderberg, Dan; Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...

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The Refugee Advantage : English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century

Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Catron, Peter; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

a large archive of recorded oral history interviews to understand linguistic attainment of migrants who arrived in the … migrants achieved a greater depth of English vocabulary than did economic/family migrants, a finding that holds even when … comparing migrants from the same country of origin or religious group. This study improves on previous research on immigrant …

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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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