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Moritz Marbach @moritz-marbach.com · 15/04/2026

🚨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

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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 · 31/03/2026

Genuinely curious: is this pattern — more hours, lower absolute pay — known from other literatures? Gig work, independent contracting, project-based employment? I'd love pointers from labor economists or anyone working on similar structures. [5/5]

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

So could be going on? Qualitative interviews point to the triadic structure of brokered care work: wages are set by the agency, but actual hours are shaped by negotiations with the household — independently. The workers putting in the most hours often have the least leverage in both arenas. [3/5]

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In our survey of Polish live-in care workers in Germany, workers who reported working more hours per day tended to earn less per month — not less per hour, but less in total. Surprising, right? We treat this as a correlation from a non-representative sample, not a settled conclusion. [2/5]

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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.

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A big thank you to my co-authors for making this project possible! @deutschmann.bsky.social @alexandra-orlova.bsky.social Lorenzo Gabrielli and Ettore Recchi

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

For a short summary, see the press releases: English: www.dezim-institut.de/fileadmin/us... German: www.dezim-institut.de/presse/press...

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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.

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DeZIM-Institut @dezim-institut.de · 02/04/2025

📣 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.

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Linda Maciejewski @lmaciejewski.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

📢 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.

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Niklas Harder @niklas-harder.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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 · 13/01/2025

🚨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...

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