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"The mother of all political problems"? : On asylum seekers and elections in Germany

Tomberg, Lukas; Smith Stegen, Karen; Vance, Colin - 2019

Drawing on panel data from six elections between 1998 and 2017 in Germany, we estimate the causal effect of immigration – described by Germany’s interior minister as the "mother of all political problems" – on electoral support for the far right and the far left. Our identification...

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Refugees' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …

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Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties

Picard, Pierre M.; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition the majority group resides close to the job center while the minority group lives far away from it. Even though the...

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How immigration reduced social capital in the US : 2005-2011

Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - 2013

Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...

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City of God redux : inequality, migration, and violent crime in Brazil between 1980 and 2000

Freire, Tiago - 2015

There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some previous studies suggest that these results hold in the short term only. This could result from measurement error in income inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement...

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Distance is crucial, at least for neighbors : foreign employment at the district level

Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2015 - Preliminary draft, this version: July 31, 2015

We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...

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Heterogeneous firms and substitution by tasks : the productivity effect of migrants : paper prepared for the ERSA Congress 21- 25 August 2012, Bratislava

Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - 2012

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new topic is to focus on the firm level by estimating...

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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...

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Wage assimilation of immigrants : which factors close the gap? - evidence from Germany

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2012

Using longitudinal employment register data this study analyzes the development of outcomes of male foreign workers from all important sending countries across time. Cohort analyses on persons entering the German labour market between 1995 and 2000 show significant differences in the...

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014

refugees and their families towards labour immigrants and their families, where family unifications with labour immigrants … exceed the family unifications with refugees since 2007. Refugees and their families show the strongest tendency to stay in … increased their share of immigrants. A stable immigration of refugees towards less central areas results in a strong and …

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