This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on … percent of communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, exposure to refugees varied at the local level. To account … for the potential endogeneity in the distribution of refugees, I use pre-existing group accommodations as instrumental …

For the first time since the Second World War, the total number of refugees amounts to more than 50 million people …. Only a minority of these refugees seek asylum, and even fewer resettle in developed countries. At the same time …, politicians, the media, and the public are worried about a lack of economic integration. Refugees start at a lower employment and …

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …

An important concern about the surge in the number of refugees arriving in Europe is increased support for far … effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). In the … 42 percent of Upper Austrian communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, direct exposure to refugees varied …

In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the … disparity between in-group and out-group social capital. This may cause refugees to favor in-group interactions and therefore …

polio and the vaccine against it, (2) experiencing forced migration, studied through the case of Yugoslavian refugees in …

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 …