Join a presentation by Panu Poutvaara (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, ifo Institute).
This event is part of the Frontiers in quantitative migration research seminar series.
The event will be held on Zoom. Please click here to join.
Using a unique dataset on refugees, researchers leverage a centralised allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously assigned to live in specific counties. They find that high initial local unemployment negatively affects refugees’ economic and social integration: they are less likely to be in education or employment and they earn less. Researchers also show that favourable attitudes towards immigrants promote refugees’ economic and social integration. The results suggest that attitudes toward immigrants are as important as local unemployment rates in shaping refugees’ integration outcomes. Using a machine learning classifier algorithm, they find that results are driven by older people and those with secondary or tertiary education. These findings highlight the importance of both initial economic and social conditions for facilitating refugee integration, and have implications for the design of centralised allocation policies.
Panu Poutvaara, with Cevat G. Aksoy and Felicitas Schikora 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).
This event is part of the Frontiers in quantitative migration research seminar series jointly organised by Herbert Brücker, Christian Hunkler and Sulin Sardoschau, Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and Michaela Kreyenfeld, Hertie School in Berlin. The intention is to gather an international scientific audience of colleagues from economics, sociology, demographics and related disciplines who are interested in innovative research on migration and integration. The weekly virtual seminar (held on Zoom) will be held in English and dedicates 30 minutes presentation time for the speaker, and 30 minutes for discussion and questions from the audience.
Find more information on the seminar series here. To receive program updates and reminders for upcoming presentations, please send an e-mail with the subject “Frontiers Registration” to wolf.farkas[at]hu-berlin[dot]de.
