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Hate is too great a burden to bear: Hate crimes and the mental health of refugees
Graeber, Daniel; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees' mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the...
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe: Who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020
crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first …
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The economics of temporary migrations
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2015
Many migrations are temporary - a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such … omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic … of migrant behavior. We propose a general theoretical framework for modeling temporary migration decisions, based on …
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The Economics of Temporary Migrations
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such … omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic … of migrant behavior. We propose a general theoretical framework for modeling temporary migration decisions, based on …
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Employment and human capital investment intentions among recent refugees in Germany
Haan, Peter; Kroh, Martin; Troutman, Kent - 2017
Motivations to participate in the labour market as well as to invest in labour market skills are crucial forthe successful integration of refugees. In this paper we use a unique dataset - the IAB-BAMF-SOEPRefugee Survey, which is a representative longitudinal study of all refugees reported on...
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First time around: Local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
We study the causal effect of local labor market conditions and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social). Using a unique dataset on refugees, we leverage a...
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Precautionary Savings by Natives and Immigrants in Germany
Piracha, Matloob; Zhu, Yu - 2007
This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about future income and legal status (in case of immigrants) is a key component in the determination of the level of precautionary savings. Using the German Socio-economic Panel data it...
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Leben außerhalb Deutschlands: eine Machbarkeitsstudie zur Realisierung von Auslandsbefragungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)
Schupp, Jürgen; Siegel, Nico A.; Erlinghagen, Marcel; … - 2008
Mit der Pilotstudie „Leben außerhalb Deutschlands“ beschreitet die Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) absolutes methodisches Neuland, indem versucht wird, die Adressen ausgewanderter Teilnehmer des deutschen Haushaltspanels SOEP im Ausland zu recherchieren und die...
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Goodbye Germany - und dann? Erste Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie zur Befragung von Auswanderern aus Deutschland
Erlinghagen, Marcel; Stegmann, Tim - 2009
understanding of migration as a fundamentally open-ended process - open up new empirical perspectives for migration research. …
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2016
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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