Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248559 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 361
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
We study the causal effect of local unemployment and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes. We leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously assigned to live in specific counties. Both high unemployment and negative attitudes hurt refugees' economic and social integration, independently of each other. A onestandard-deviation increase in unemployment or in negative sentiment index based on geo-coded tweets in 2014 predicts five percentage points lower probability of refugees being employed in 2016 to 2018. The estimated negative effects of far-right vote share are qualitatively similar.
Subjects: 
International migration
refugees
integration
allocation policy
far-right voting
negative sentiment
JEL: 
F22
J15
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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