Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau and Marco Tabellini
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Philipp Jaschke: Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Sulin Sardoschau: HU Berlin
Marco Tabellini: Harvard Business School

No 384, Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series from CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition

Abstract: This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on German respondents, and construct a threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and economically. However, while refugees assigned to more hostile regions converge to German culture more quickly, they do not exhibit faster economic assimilation. Our evidence suggests that refugees exert more assimilation effort in response to local threat, but that higher discrimination prevents them from integrating more quickly in more hostile regions.

Keywords: refugees; cultural change; assimilation; identity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-02-10
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