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 …

-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be considered alongside the standard indexes of material gain (G) and environmental … sustainability (E). The four indexes - SAGE - form a balanced dashboard for evaluating well-being. The solidarity index covers the … conventionally measured through GDP per capita, "social prosperity" can be measured through our solidarity and agency indexes …

refugees' labour market performance. Specifically, we examine the employment effects of the 2010 reform of the introduction … program (known as IP), and how the effects vary depending on refugees' educational attainment. Given that the eligibility for … that exacerbate over time. The effects are significant and identical for male refugees, regardless of educational …

We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in … of the paper, we examine the consequences of receiving asylum seekers and refugees and identify two main findings. First …, the reception of refugees is unlikely to generate large direct economic effects. Both labor market and fiscal consequences …

Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right …-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …

years of employment restrictions together with individual data for refugees entering European countries between 1985 and …. These effects are not mechanical, since we exclude refugees who may still be subject to employment restrictions, are non … concentrated among less educated refugees, translate into lower occupational quality, and seem not to be driven by selective …

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

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 …

insiders' capitalism that we describe, trough the costless appropriation of an intricate cobweb of Call-Put structures, has … two sides of the Warrant Economics coin. We argue that the Warrant Economics state of capitalism has been legitimised by a …