We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees …

will increase as a reciprocal response to refugees' contributions to society through volunteering. Our nationwide survey … experiment shows that citizens' intentions to contribute time and money rise significantly when they learn about refugees' pro …-social activities. Importantly, this result holds for individuals who have not been in contact with refugees. We complement this …

Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This …

, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around … offers a strategic case for understanding factors that shaped the arrival and resettlement experiences of Vietnamese refugees … not be uniformly positive for immigrants and refugees to have an integration experience deemed successful. …

The current distribution of refugees in Germany based on tax revenue and population levels continues to be perceived as …

Refugees are often perceived as an economic "burden", as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates …. But there is little quantitative evidence on the medium-term outcomes of refugees in the UK. We fill this gap by looking … at the case of "East African Asians" who arrived as refugees in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We use data from the UK …

This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …

This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly … preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on German respondents, and construct a threat index … that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and economically …

Refugees are more likely to develop mental diseases as most of them have been exposed to potentially traumatic events … a high share of refugees (31% in 2017/2018, declining to 26% in 2022) who showed moderate or severe levels of mental …