This paper examines the effect of the influx of asylum seekers to Germany in 2014 and 2015 on anti-foreigner hate crime. By exploiting the quasi-experimental assignment of asylum seekers to German regions, the authors estimate the causal effect of changes in the share...
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Immigration and Crimes against Natives: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany
During the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees settled in Germany, raising concerns that the influx of refugees would lead to more crime against natives. Previous studies investigating the impact of refugees or migrants on crime do not use actual rates of...
The Refugee Wave to Germany and its Impact on Crime
This paper provides empirical evidence on the crime impacts of the recent refugee influx to Germany from 2010 to 2015. The author considers asylum seekers and recognized refugees separately, since asylum seekers are subject to dispersal policies and locational...
Contact Matters: Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right
This paper investigates how exposure to refugees in Upper Austria affected voting for the far right Freedom Party of Austria. In state elections in September 2015, at the peak of the refugee crisis, the Freedom Party doubled its share of the vote with nationalistic,...
Urban Planning for Refugee Housing: Responding to Urgent Needs
This article discusses how the city of Hamburg adjusted its urban planning policy to accommodate refugees, and the implications of their approach. The settlement of 82,000 refugees in Hamburg (a city of 1.8 million people) between 2015 and 2019 exacerbated an already...
Hamburg, Germany: A Case Study of Refugees in Towns
This case study explores the spatial, ethical, social, and economic implications of Germany’s new refugee housing policy and its impact on integration. The report begins with an overview of the refugee situation and asylum process in Germany. In Hamburg, the influx of...
Market Size and Spatial Growth – Evidence from Germany’s Post-War Population Expulsions
This paper examines the long-term impact of forced transfers of Ethnic Germans from East German Territories to West Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Between 1945 and 1948, almost eight million ethnic Germans were forcibly resettled in West Germany,...
German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention
This paper presents empirical analysis of the long-term impact of highly educated Jewish scientists who had fled Nazi Germany on scientific innovation in the United States (US). In 1933 the Nazis introduced legislation requiring all non-Aryans to be removed from the...
Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia
This paper examines the long-term impact of the forced migration of French Protestants (Huguenots) from France to Brandenburg-Prussia in 1685. The author estimates the impact of the Huguenots refugees on the productivity of textile manufactories in Prussia more than a...
Migration restrictions and long-term regional development: evidence from large-scale expulsions of Germans after World War II
This article examines the long-term effect of temporary but restrictive migration barriers on regional development in the wake of a refugee crisis by exploiting the large-scale expulsions of Germans after World War II (WW2). Approximately 8 million expellees arrived...