The recent rise of xenophobic attacks against refugees in Germany has sparked both political and scholarly debates on … georeferenced event dataset on anti-refugee violence and social unrest in Germany in 2014 and 2015 based on a public chronicle. Our …, we offer a descriptive analysis of patterns of right-wing violence and unrest in Germany in 2014 and 2015. We conclude by …

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 …

Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right …-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 …

We analyze socioemotional skills' role for destination-language proficiency among recent refugees in Germany. While … language proficiency. In sum, socioemotional skills affect refugees' destination-language proficiency and thereby contribute to … zwischen 2013 und 2016 nach Deutschland zugezogen sind. Bisher wurden sozio-emotionale Fähigkeiten im Kontext der …

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 …

a decision process among refugees in Germany and examine the determinants of investment decisions into host country … representative longitudinal survey of recently arrived refugees in Germany. We find that refugees' probability of investing in …-specific credentials such as vocational education. The choice experiment was introduced in the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees (2020), a …