of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify the validity of height as a proxy for human and health capital. We further … immigration of European refugees. …

Over the last 15 years, the locus of policymaking towards asylum seekers and refugees has shifted away from national …

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 …

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 …