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-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 …
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The mental health and well-being of refugees are both prerequisites for and indicators of social integration. Using … data from the first wave of a representative prospective panel of refugees living in Germany, we investigated how different … satisfaction in newly-arrived adult refugees. In particular, we investigated how the outcome of the asylum process, family …
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Background: Responding to the mental health needs of refugees remains a pressing challenge worldwide. We estimated the …-BAMF-SOEP, a representative Germany-wide survey of 2,639 adult refugees who arrived between 2013 and 2016, which included the … high for women (53%[47.1%-58.9%]), older refugees (aged ≥ 55:70.4% [58.5%-82.2%]), Afghan nationals (61 …
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certified language proficiency levels among refugees in Germany. The residence rule restricts initial residence for refugees with …-experiment and apply a difference-in-differences approach. Using an innovative data-set, the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, I find …
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support for the relatively new, right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). However, using the variability in …
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refugees, it has been documented that these groups show elevated levels of both social isolation and loneliness compared to the … groups of migrants, refugees, and the host population in Germany. The hypotheses are informed by the differences in social … data from a large stratified random sample of the population, including migrants and refugees, we test our five hypotheses …
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A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria,...
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This paper investigates the gender-specific impact of settlement policies on the labor market integration of refugees … in Germany, utilizing a gender-specific approach. Analyzing data from the IAB- BAMF-SOEP Refugees Survey (2016 … outcomes. Results reveal that female refugees experience reduced employment prospects, independent of mobility restrictions …
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The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview...
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The determinants of migrants' remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In contrast to previous studies we analyze the motives for remittances not only for foreigners but also for the broader group of individuals with a personal migration background. Major...
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