Immigration and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany

In 2015, Germany witnessed a sharp increase in the number of refugees. Julia Bredtmann investigates how this large inflow of refugees affected the electoral outcomes of the following state parliamentary elections. 

Julia Bredtmann
Head of the Research group "Migration and Integration", RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Julia Bredtmann is a researcher at RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Germany, where she is heading the research group “Migration and Integration”. She is also affiliated with the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) at University College London. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the Ruhr University Bochum in 2013.

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