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Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...
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Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees … refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. We apply a regression discontinuity …. The effects are stronger for refugees with closer geographic proximity to the focal hate crime and refugees with low …
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nations in turmoil and the promise of a better life have drawn hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants to the EU in 2014 …-2015. Further complicating the ongoing challenge is the confounding flow of humanitarian migrants, who are fleeing not for a job but … for their lives. Those who flee for better economic conditions are irregular migrants, not humanitarian migrants, but the …
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-depth analysis of the relationship between public policies and the flow of migrants into these Northern European states, the book … considers which destination-country policies most attract asylum seekers and other migrants. Chapters explore how the four … on an issue that has become both politically and academically salient in Europe since the late 20th century …
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in … asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other … types of immigrants, and provides a new analysis comparing refugees to other immigrants in the United States using a sample …
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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 …
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concern over such a large influx of refugees with her well-known saying, "Wir schaffen das" (We can do this!). Much has …. Nevertheless, refugees are increasingly concerned about xenophobia. At the same time, although their trust in key state … be to foster personal contact between refugees and local populations. However, the present study indicates that, so far …
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differential demand shock induced by refugees' consumption of culturally similar goods and services. However, the unemployment … effects dissipated starting in 2016, coinciding with refugees' delayed yet incremental labor market integration. We also … to arriving refugees. Our results suggest that TMENA immigrants' assimilation of German identity was unaffected by the …
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