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Niklas Harder

@niklas-harder.bsky.social

Political scientist | Co-Head of Integration at DeZIM | Formerly @ Immigration Policy Lab (Stanford) & Graduate School of Decision Sciences (Konstanz) | Research on integration, political participation & policy evaluation

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Moritz Marbach @moritz-marbach.com · 4mo ago

🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3 w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh #econtwitter #econsky

Refugee labor market integration at scale: Evidence from Germany’s fast-track employment program | PNAS

Governments face persistent challenges in integrating refugees into the local labor market, and many past interventions have shown limited impact. ...

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧵 New paper in ILR Review with Kamil Matuszczyk, Magdalena Nowicka & Mathis Herpell — and it starts with a counterintuitive finding. [1/5]

Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Gestern erschien mein ZAR-Editorial zu den Folgen des erschwerten Zugangs zu Integrationskursen. Es war ungewohnt, für eine juristische Zeitschrift zu schreiben. Die Forschungslage ist aber eindeutig: das BAMF bremst Eigeninitiative und Integration aus und für den deutschen Staat wird es teuer.

Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’m very happy to see our paper published in Political Geography. We show that your country of residence influences your waiting time for an appointment at a German diplomatic mission. These differences are substantial and far from random.

Emanuel Deutschmann@deutschmann.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New #openaccess study We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment. "A time panelty for the Global South?" shorturl.at/ZiAFb

Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the
establishment and perpetuation of global inequalities. In this article, we systematically analyze visa appointment
wait times in German embassies and consulates worldwide. Using computational methods, we collect—and
publish—fine-grained longitudinal data on the closest available appointment dates for various visa types,
covering a total of 16,182 visa appointment requests. Our analysis reveals strong and systematic variance: the
poorer the country a diplomatic mission is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding
an available appointment (which ranges from almost 0 to 100 percent). We also argue that Germany’s system is
quite opaque compared to other established immigration countries such as the U.S. These core findings raise
important questions in light of current debates about global justice, legal pathways to migration, and efforts to
attract foreign talent.

DeZIM-Institut @dezim-institut.de · 11mo ago

📣Private #Unterbringung wirkt sich positiv auf die #Integration ukrainischer Geflüchteter aus: Effekte zeigen sich v.a. im Bereich der sozialen, psychologischen und alltagspraktischen Integration. Das zeigt die Studie von DeZIM, UCL, @diw.de, @immigrationlab.bsky.social & @ethz.ch @nature.com

The impact of private hosting on the integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany - Nature Human Behaviour

Herpell et al. use data from Germany to study the short- and medium-term effects of a programme to match Ukrainian refugees with private hosts on integration outcomes. Hosting led to improvements in s...

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DeZIM-Institut @dezim-institut.de · last yr.

📣 Die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik #PKS liefert kein verlässliches Bild zur inneren Sicherheit oder zum Zusammenhang von #Migration und #Kriminalität. Das zeigt auch ein Vergleich mit Daten der Staatsanwaltschaften von @niklas-harder.bsky.social ➡️ www.dezim-institut.de/aktuelles/po...

Zitat von Dr. Niklas Harder, Co-Leitung der Abteilung Integration: Öffentliche Spekulationen zu kriminologischen Fragen zeigen, dass
in der Gesellschaft ein großer Informationsbedarf besteht. Dies gilt insbesondere für die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Migration und Kriminalität. Diesen auf Grundlage der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik (PKS) herzustellen, ist angesichts der eingeschränkten Datenlage bestenfalls spekulativ und schlimmstenfalls bewusst irreführend. In Anbetracht der vielen möglichen Fehlschlüsse und der begrenzten Aussagekraft der PKS sollten die Bundesregierung und das Bundeskriminalamt daher die gesondert hervorgehobene Präsentation der PKS-Daten hinterfragen.

Linda Maciejewski @lmaciejewski.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 New research on immigrant single mothers in Germany is out now! @niklas-harder.bsky.social and I apply an intersectional perspective to explore poverty risk, life satisfaction, and child well-being. Findings challenge assumptions about economic stress and family outcomes.

DeZIM-Institut@dezim-institut.de · last yr.

📣New research on immigrant single mothers in GER! @lmaciejewski.bsky.social & @niklas-harder.bsky.social use the AID:A 2019 dataset to explore how immigrant single mothers experience poverty risk, life satisfaction, and child well-being. @springernature.com 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

DeZIM-Institut @dezim-institut.de · last yr.

Immigrant Single Mothers in Germany: An Intersectional Perspective on a Group at Risk - Journal of International Migration and Integration

The risk of poverty is not evenly distributed in the German population, and immigrants and single mothers are particularly at risk. According to the Family Stress Model, poverty can impact all family ...

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m looking for a postdoc to join me in researching immigrant integration in Germany. The initial contract is for three years, with the possibility of extension. Since basic knowledge of German is required, the job description is in German: www.dezim-institut.de/fileadmin/us...

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Moritz Marbach @moritz-marbach.com · 2y ago

🚨New paper: Does ad hoc language training improve the economic integration of refugees? Evidence from Germany’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis 🚨 w/ Ehsan Vallizadeh, @niklas-harder.bsky.social, Dominik Hangartner, Jens Hainmueller doi.org/10.1093/jrss...