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estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a difference-in- differences strategy and a … approximately 2.5 percent due to immigration. Prices of goods and services have declined in similar magnitudes. We highlight that …
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International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
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After the end of World War II in 1945, millions of refugees arrived in what in 1949 became the Federal Republic of Germany. We examine their effect on today's productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the municipality level. Our identification strategy is based on...
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This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I find that...
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Are there long-term labor consequences in migrating to the US during a recession? For most immigrants, credibly estimating this effect is difficult because of selective migration. Some immigrants may not move if economic conditions are not favorable. However, identification is possible for...
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As immigration to Europe has increased, so has support for extremist parties. While many studies have examined the … effect of immigration on election outcomes, few have probed the effect of asylum seekers – those fleeing strife and … effects for parties on the far right and left diverge markedly. Under economic prosperity, immigration increases support on …
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This article studies whether immigration in voter's neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany's major … small-scale immigration data, election data, and a set of socioeconomic factors. Our main finding states that the local … immigration boosted AFD votes but did not affect CDU votes directly. Instead, in regions that perceived immigration indirectly …
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