TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Jaschke, Philipp
AU  - Sardoschau, Sulin
AU  - Tabellini, Marco
        TI  - Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
        PY  - 2021/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14962
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14962
        AB  - This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on 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 locals, 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 local culture more quickly, they do not exhibit faster economic assimilation. We provide evidence consistent with the hypothesis that refugees exert more assimilation effort in response to local threat, but fail to successfully integrate because of higher discrimination by locals in more hostile regions.
        KW  - migration
KW  - refugees
KW  - culture
KW  - assimilation
KW  - identity
        ER  -