across regions and over time. Relying on data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, we find that the introduction of the …

The recent rise of xenophobic attacks against refugees in Germany has sparked both political and scholarly debates on …

The current distribution of refugees in Germany based on tax revenue and population levels continues to be perceived as …

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees … data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a … threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and …

-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 …

examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …