全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP17174 The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP17174
	DP17174 The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
	Michael Bailey; Drew Johnston; Martin Koenen; Theresa Kuchler; Dominic Russel; Johannes Ströbel
发表日期	2022-04-03
出版年	2022
语种	英语
摘要	We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants' social integration based on Syrians' friendship links to Germans, their use of the German language, and their participation in local social groups. We find large variation in Syrians' social integration across German counties, and use a movers' research design to document that these differences are largely due to causal effects of place. Regional differences in the social integration of Syrians are shaped both by the rate at which German natives befriend other locals in general (general friendliness) and the relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending behavior of Germans that move across locations to show that both general friendliness and relative friending are more strongly affected by place-based effects such as local institutions than by persistent individual characteristics of natives (e.g., attitudes toward neighbors or migrants). Relative friending is higher in areas with lower unemployment and more completed government-sponsored integration courses. Using variation in teacher availability as an instrument, we find that integration courses had a substantial causal effect on the social integration of Syrian migrants. We also use fluctuations in the presence of Syrian migrants across high school cohorts to show that natives with quasi-random exposure to Syrians in school are more likely to befriend other Syrian migrants in other settings, suggesting that contact between groups can shape subsequent attitudes towards migrants.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics ; Political Economy ; Public Economics
关键词	Integration Immigration Social Networks Place effects
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp17174
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546167
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Michael Bailey,Drew Johnston,Martin Koenen,et al. DP17174 The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany. 2022.