- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Social and Demographic Issues in Germany
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Social Policies and Healthcare Reform
- Vocational Education and Training
- European Law and Migration
- Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Economic Policies and Impacts
- Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
- Law and Political Science
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration
- Health and Medical Studies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Global Political and Economic Relations
- Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung
2019-2023
National Bureau of Economic Research
2022
University of Milan
2022
Employment Agency
2021
Because of their often-dramatic, life-threatening flight patterns and resulting pronounced health disparities, many refugees have a great need for medical treatment after arrival to host countries. In Germany, whose asylum application is not approved or duration stay has yet exceeded 15 months must request doctor visits, with considerable amount bureaucracy, from the local responsible authority. Since 2016, however, several federal states municipalities in Germany introduced electronic cards...
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 2016. We combine novel survey data cultural preferences outcomes refugees with corresponding information locals, construct a index that integrates contemporaneous historical variables. On average, assimilate both culturally economically. However, while assigned more hostile converge...
We study how satisfaction with government efforts to respond the COVID-19 crisis affects compliance pandemic mitigation measures. Using a novel longitudinal household survey for Germany, we overcome identification and endogeneity challenges involved in estimating individual by using an instrumental variable approach that exploits exogenous variation two indicators measured before crisis: political party preferences mode of information frequency social media reading newspapers. find one unit...
Objectives To examine potential deteriorations in mental health and well-being the first COVID-19 pandemic year compared with previous decade focusing on following vulnerable subgroups Germany: women minor children household, those living without a partner, younger older adults, precarious labour market situation, immigrants refugees, pre-existing physical or risks. Design Analyses of secondary longitudinal survey data using cluster-robust pooled ordinary least squares models. Participants...
About 80 million people were displaced worldwide at the end of 2020. To support this highly vulnerable group, in recent years, local bottom-up initiatives proliferated to refugee integration hosting communities. This study examines a network intervention for refugees collaboration with social start-up whose mission is match and volunteers form friendships. We apply an innovative randomised controlled trial approach 446 participants integrated into survey almost 8000 randomly sampled who...
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 2016. We combine novel survey data cultural preferences outcomes refugees with corresponding information locals, construct a index that integrates contemporaneous historical variables. On average, assimilate both culturally economically. However, while assigned more hostile converge...