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 …

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 …

Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi …

Until the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany …, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around … simultaneous arrival of non-refugee Vietnamese, who came on temporary labour contracts to socialist East Germany starting in 1980 …

This meta-study investigates recent research on the effects of immigration on the welfare state in Austria, Germany and … Switzerland. Due to the 2015 arrival of high numbers of refugees into Europe, the focus is on studies about asylum seekers …, recognized refugees and, more generally, on forced migrants. In total, twenty recently published studies are scrutinized in a …