Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting …

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting …

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting …

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting …

This article studies whether immigration in voter's neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany's major … right-wing party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AFD) and the decline of Angela Merkel's center ruling party the Christian … on the voting behavior in German municipalities. This is the first study to use a spatial econometric framework combining …

Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee …This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in … populations and their type of accommodation, I find that an increase in the population share of refugees increases the vote share …

This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically …, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects … success of right-wing parties. For identification, I exploit quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across …

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of …

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of …

Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the … large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in 2015-2016. Arriving refugees were dispersed across the country … spatial correlations between refugee inflows and crime rates using the administrative allocation quotas as instrumental …