We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees … and female irregular migrants are positively self-selected with respect to human capital, while male irregular migrants …

attitudes towards immigrants promote refugees' economic and social integration. The results suggest that attitudes toward … immigrants are as important as local unemployment rates in shaping refugees' integration outcomes. Using a machine learning …We study the causal effect of local labor market conditions and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on …

Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees … refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. We apply a regression discontinuity …. The effects are stronger for refugees with closer geographic proximity to the focal hate crime and refugees with low …

In this paper, we analyze how the formal recognition of immigrants' foreign occupational qualifications afects their … information to their administrative records, allowing us to observe immigrants at monthly intervals before, during and after their …. After three years, the full recognition of immigrants' foreign qualifications increases their employment rates by 24 …

otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills … immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with … gap. Immigrants are initially less likely to participate in the labor market and more likely to be unemployed. While …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting …This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in … Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host …-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases …