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  News // 19.09.2024

  More Migration, More Crime? On Immigration and Security

  have harboured fears of foreign influence and crime. Although the vast majority of migrants lead peaceful lives, there are still migrant-related crimes, such as the Islamist attacks in Berlin in 2016 [...] migration and crime. Together with ZEW podcast host Bastian Thüne, he provides a scientific perspective on these issues and discusses whether the arrival of Syrian refugees has had an impact on crime statistics
• Events // 24.10.2024

  Beyond Bars How Sentence Types Shape Ex-Felons’ Transition into Entrepreneurship and Reintegration

  ZEW Research Seminar investigates how the type of sentences received by individuals convicted of crimes relates to their subsequent labor market trajectories and, particularly, their transition into e
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  Press Releases // 07.06.2024

  A Summer’s Tale for Social Cohesion?

  on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa found that immigrants were more easily integrated and that crime rates fell by ten per cent for several months in sub-Saharan countries that participated in the tournament
• Publications // 22.12.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - High-Profile Crime and Perceived Public Safety: Evidence From Cologne’s New Year’s Eve in 2015

  impact of a high-profile crime event on perceived public safety. At the 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne (NYE), Germany, refugees allegedly committed over a thousand crimes, ranging from theft to
• Publications // 21.12.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Broken Relationships: De-Risking by Correspondent Banks and International Trade

  information on severed correspondent banking relationships (due to the stricter enforcement of financial crime regulation) to assess how payment disruptions impede cross-border trade. Using firm-level export data
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  Press Releases // 27.12.2023

  Germans Feel Significantly Less Secure and Seek Enhanced Protection

  The New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cologne in 2015 were overshadowed by more than a thousand crimes. These ranged from theft to sexual assault and were allegedly mostly committed by North African refugees [...] cent, an effect that persisted for up to two years. This loss is even higher among women, victims of crimes, and politically right-leaning individuals,” explains co-author Dr. Martin Lange, who heads the Junior [...] Year’s Eve, internet searches for terms like ‘pepper spray’ and ‘self-defence’ rose sharply. The crimes also worsened the overall public attitude towards refugees and immigrants,” Lange adds.
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  News // 21.11.2023

  Refugees Cause Only Slight Increase in Crime

  welcoming phase, were increasingly associated with crime in public discourse and the media. Researchers from ZEW Mannheim investigated whether crime rates in districts receiving refugees actually went [...] reveals that crime rates did indeed rise, but only slightly and with a certain time lag. - “Given the fact that young men – regardless of their nationality – are more prone to commit crime than older men [...] men and women, we would have expected a significant surge in crime rates. However, our data for the arrival year 2015 show no increased crime rates. It was only in 2016 that they rose due to refugee arrivals
• Publications // 16.11.2023

  Refereed Journal - Do Refugees Impact Crime? Causal Evidence from Large-Scale Refugee Immigration to Germany

  there was an increase in crime rates one year later. This lagged effect is small per refugee but large in absolute terms and is strongest for property and violent crimes. The crime effects are robust across [...] spatial correlations between refugee inflows and crime rates using the administrative allocation quotas as instrumental variables. Our results indicate that crime rates were not affected during the year of refugee [...] Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in 2015–2016. Arriving
• Publications // 13.11.2023

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Do Refugees Impact Crime? Causal Evidence From Large-Scale Refugee Immigration to Germany

  there was an increase in crime rates one year later. This lagged effect is small per refugee but large in absolute terms and is strongest for property and violent crimes. The crime effects are robust across [...] spatial correlations between refugee inflows and crime rates using the administrative allocation quotas as instrumental variables. Our results indicate that crime rates were not affected during the year of refugee [...] Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in 2015–2016. Arriving
• Publications // 30.05.2023

  Refereed Journal - Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Refugee Hate Crime

  large-scale immigration on hate crime against refugees. Results indicate that it is not simply the size of local refugee inflows which drives the increase in hate crime, but rather the combination of refugee [...] experienced hate crimes in the 1990s, and areas with high support for the Nazi party in the Weimar Republic, are more prone to respond to the arrival of refugees with incidents of hate crime against this group [...] In this article, we examine anti-refugee hate crime in the wake of the large influx of refugees to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting institutional features of the assignment of refugees to German