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Refereed essays Web of Science
Involuntarily or planned – many refugees flee their home country alone, leave behind spouses and children but also siblings, parents and other family members they otherwise care for. Reunification in hosting communities is difficult, as governments limit institutional family reunifications and the individual journey of kin is dangerous and often illegal. Having family abroad is mentally distressing ...
In:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
47 (2021) 13, S. 2916–2937
| Lea-Maria Löbel, Jannes Jacobsen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In current immigration debates ethnic prejudice is often expressed in a subtle manner, which conceals its xenophobic content. However, previous research has only insufficiently examined the specific features that make certain ethnically prejudicial statements subtler, i.e., less readily identifiable as xenophobic, than others. The current study employs an experimental factorial survey design and assesses ...
In:
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
9 (2021), 1, S. 187–206
| Karolina Fetz, Martin Kroh
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Adding to the rich literature on the economic integration of refugees, this article extends the scope towards the role of institutions by focusing on the transfer of human capital by means of credential recognition. The 2012 Federal Act of Recognition in Germany is a new institution that provides the possibility to study the transfer of human capital in depth. I argue that analysing the decision for ...
In:
Journal of Refugee Studies
34 (2021), 3, S. 3000–3023
| Jannes Jacobsen
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Externe Working Papers
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also selfselected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties in Poland that have experienced ...
München:
CESifo,
2020,
66 S.
(CESifo Working Papers ; 8570)
| Yvonne Giesing, Felicitas Schikora
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SOEPpapers 1115 / 2020
We study the causal effect of local labor market conditions and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on 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. ...
2020| Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, Felicitas Schikora
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DIW Weekly Report 49 / 2020
Over a million people sought asylum in Germany between 2014 and 2016. During this time, many Germans began volunteering in various ways to help refugees and mentorship pro- grams in particular gained significance. As this report shows, participating in a mentorship program has a positive impact on refugees: They improve their language skills and become more socially active. Mentors experience the relationship ...
2020| Magdalena Krieger, Philipp Jaschke, Martin Kroh, Nicolas Legewie, Lea-Maria Löbel
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Refugees are at an increased risk of mental health problems and low subjective well-being. Living circumstances in the host country are thought to play a vital role in shaping these health outcomes, which, in turn, are prerequisites for successful integration. Using data from a representative survey of 4325 adult refugees who arrived in Germany between 2013 and 2016, we investigated how different living ...
In:
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
22 (2020), S. 903-913
| Lena Walther, Lukas M. Fuchs, Jürgen Schupp, Christian von Scheve
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DIW Weekly Report 17/18 / 2020
The number of employed persons in Germany has grown by over five million since 2000, in part due to an increase in immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting as well. Disposable income inequality ...
2020| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
In later life, social ties become increasingly important for one’s mental health. In this study, we test whether exogamous unions, in which one of the partner is migrant and one native, affect older individual’s social networks, and whether the association between exogamy and mental health operates through social networks. We hypothesize that immigrants gain social...
17.07.2020| Chia Liu, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research & University of St. Andrews
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This study addresses the heated academic and public debate on the compatibility and comparability of refugees’ and host societies’ democratic values. Comparative values research has long capitalized on global similarities and differences in support for Western democratic values. We argue that such cross-cultural comparisons of culturally diverse groups are challenged by (1) different conceptions of ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
151 (2020), S. 669–690
| Jannes Jacobsen, Lukas M. Fuchs