Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone … identification strategy exploits that a scramble for accommodation determined the assignment of refugees to German counties resulting … in exogeneous variations in the number of refugees per county even within states. Our estimates suggest that migrants …

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 an increase in the population share of refugees increases the vote share …

making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the … reception of refugees. Although municipalities receive fiscal grants for hosting refugees, electoral incentives reduce the …-right political preferences. The results explain why is difficult to reach an equal redistribution of refugees across and within …

This paper explores whether the massive arrival of refugees at Greek islands has had an impact on natives' voting … behavior. Our results show a positive and significant effect of refugees' presence on votes for the Greek extreme right party … Golden Dawn. More precisely, we find that a 1% increase in the share of refugees is associated with an increase of 5% in the …

The recent rise of xenophobic attacks against refugees in Germany has sparked both political and scholarly debates on …

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 …