refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social …). Using a unique dataset on refugees, we leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously … assigned to live in specific counties. We find that high initial local unemployment negatively affects refugees' economic and …

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 …

evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our … analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill …. Finally, our model provides important insight for the design of migration policies, showing that policies which initially …

The evidence on the impact of return migration on the sending country is rather sparse, though growing. The … contribution of this paper is in addressing various selectivity problems whilst quantifying the impact of return migration on wages … migrants controlling for several selectivity biases arising from emigration choice, return migration choice, labor force …

We develop a theoretical model regarding the migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of … international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases with the income of the primary …