Dr. Daniel Auer

picture Daniel Auer
MZES Fellow "Migration and Integration"
Daniel.Auer [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
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+49-621-181-3494
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+49-621-181-2803
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+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building B
Room:109
68159  Mannheim

Profile/Career

Daniel Auer is MZES Fellow "Migration and Integration". Before, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the WZB - Berlin Social Science Center. He received his Dr. in Public Administration from the University of Lausanne and the National Competence Center on Research NCCR - on the move. Previously, he studied at the Universities of Vienna, Urbana-Champaign, and Zurich and has been a visiting researcher in Malmoe and Oxford. His work focuses on discriminatory- and policy-driven mechanisms that affect immigrants’ labour-market integration as well as on policy effects in the context of international migration.

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.2104
Demographic, Societal, and Economic Consequences of East-West Migration in Europe (EUMIG)

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.2202
Seeing your Religion—Regional Variation of Anti-Muslim Racism in the German Labour Market

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

B1.2309
Politicised Wokeness, Residential Mobility, and Spatial Polarisation

Publications

Journal Articles

Auer, Daniel, Lea Portmann and Thomas Tichelbaecker (In Press): Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant-Origin Politicians. American Journal of Political Science, (publ. online before print). more
Auer, Daniel, and Lilia Götz (In Press): Refugee migration, labor demand and local employment. Socio-Economic Review, (publ. online before print). more
Auer, Daniel, and Max Schaub (2024): Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy. International Studies Quarterly, 68, issue 2. more
Auer, Daniel, and Daniel Tetlow (2023): Brexit, uncertainty, and migration decisions. International Migration, 61, issue 4, pp. 88-103. more
Auer, Daniel, and Didier Ruedin (2023): How one gesture curbed ethnic discrimination. European Journal of Political Research, 62, issue 3, pp. 945-966. more
Auer, Daniel, Didier Ruedin and Eva van Belle (2023): No sign of increased ethnic discrimination during a crisis: evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic. Socio-Economic Review, 21, issue 3, pp. 1501–1524. more
Auer, Daniel, and Max Schaub (2023): Returning from greener pastures? How exposure to returnees affects migration plans. World Development, 169, (article no. 106291), pp. 1-13. more
Auer, Daniel, Johanna Gereke and Max Schaub (2023): Spiritual practices predict migration behavior. Scientific reports, 13, (article no. 12535), pp. 1-7. more
Schaub, Max, and Daniel Auer (2023): Rebel Recruitment and Migration: Theory and Evidence From Southern Senegal. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 67, issue 6, pp. 1155-1182. more
Auer, Daniel (2022): Firing discrimination: Selective labor market responses of firms during the COVID-19 economic crisis. PLOS ONE, 17, issue 1, (article no. e0262337). more
Breznau, Nate, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Hung Nguyen, Daniel Auer, Oke Bahnsen, Paul C. Bauer, Julian Bernauer, Simon Ellerbrock, Tobias Gummer, Stefanie Heyne, Matthias Mader, Christoph Wolf, Nan Zhang and et al. (2022): Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: PNAS, 119, issue 44, (article no. e2203150119), pp. 1-8. more
Auer, Daniel (2021): Merchants of death: Arms imports and terrorism. European Economic Review, 137, (article no. 103813). more
Helbling, Marc, Daniel Auer, Daniel Meierrieks, Malcolm Mistry and Max Schaub (2021): Climate change literacy and migration potential: micro-level evidence from Africa. Climatic Change, 169, issue 1-2, (article no. 9). more
Helbling, Marc, Daniel Auer, Daniel Meierrieks, Malcolm Mistry and Max Schaub (2021): Climate Change Literacy and Migration Potential: Micro-Level Evidence from Africa. Climatic Change, 169, (article no. 9, 2021), pp. 1-13. more
Auer, Daniel, and Flavia Fossati (2020): Compensation or competition: Bias in immigrants' access to active labour market measures. Social Policy and Administration, 54, issue 3, pp. 390-409. more
Auer, Daniel, Friderieke Römer and Jasper Tjaden (2020): Corruption and the Desire to Leave: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Corruption as a Driver of Emigration Intentions. IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 11, issue 1, pp. 1-31. more
Fossati, Flavia, Fabienne Liechti and Daniel Auer (2020): Can signaling assimilation mitigate hiring discrimination? Evidence from a survey experiment. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 65, issue February, (article no. 100462). more
Auer, Daniel, and Flavia Fossati (2019): The absent rewards of assimilation: how ethnic penalties persist in the Swiss labour market. The Journal of Economic Inequality, 17, issue 2, pp. 285–299. more
Tjaden, Jasper, Daniel Auer and Frank Laczko (2019): Linking Migration Intentions with Flows: Evidence and Potential Use. International Migration, 57, issue 1, pp. 36-57. more
Auer, Daniel (2018): Language roulette – the effect of random placement on refugees’ labour market integration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44, issue 3, pp. 341-362. more
Auer, Daniel, Giuliano Bonoli, Flavia Fossati and Fabienne Liechti (2018): The Matching Hierarchies Model: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Employers’ Hiring Intent Regarding Immigrant Applicants. International Migration Review, 53, issue 1, pp. 90-121. more
Auer, Daniel, Giuliano Bonoli and Flavia Fossati (2017): Why do immigrants have longer periods of unemployment? Swiss evidence. International Migration, 55, issue 1, pp. 157-174. more
Liechti, Fabienne, Flavia Fossati, Giuliano Bonoli and Daniel Auer (2017): The Signalling Value of Labour Market Programmes. European Sociological Review, 33, issue 2, pp. 257–274. more
Auer, Daniel, and Didier Ruedin Experimental evidence on how implicit racial bias affects risk preferences. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (publ. online before print). more

Papers / Reports

Auer, Daniel, and Johannes Kunz (2021): Communication Barriers and Infant Health: Intergenerational Effects of Randomly Allocating Refugees Across Language Regions. Essen [GLO Discussion Paper; 867] more
Auer, Daniel, and Lilia Götz (2021): Refugee migration, labor demand, and local employment. [GLO Discussion Paper; 989] more

Conference Presentations

Auer, Daniel, and Johannes Kunz (2021): Communication Barriers and Infant Health: Causal Evidence from the Swiss Language Roulette. [10th ifo Dresden Workshop on Labor Economics and Social Policy, (virtual workshop), May 06th to May 07th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Johannes Kunz (2021): Communication Barriers and Infant Health: Causal Evidence from the Swiss Language Roulette. [IAB-ECSR interdisciplinary conference "Refugee migration and integration revisited: lessons from the recent past", (virtual conference), May 27th to May 28th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Johannes Kunz (2021): Communication Barriers and Infant Health: Causal Evidence from the Swiss Language Roulette. [38th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE), (virtual conference), September 09th to September 10th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Johannes Kunz (2021): Communication Barriers and Infant Health: Causal Evidence from the Swiss Language Roulette. [SSES Annual Congress 2021, (virtual conference), June 10th to June 11th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Johannes Kunz (2021): Communication Barriers and Infant Health: Causal Evidence from the Swiss Language Roulette. [Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing, (virtual conference), June 21st to June 22nd, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Johannes Kunz (2021): Communication barriers and infant health: intergenerational effects of randomly allocating refugees across language regions. [13th International Scientific Conference: Applied Economics Conference: Labour, Health, Education And Welfare, (virtual conference), October 28th to October 29th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Didier Ruedin (2021): Dynamics of Discrimination. [Workshop on Survey Experiments in Migration and Integration, (virtual workshop), January 08th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, Lea Portmann and Thomas Tichelbäcker (2021): Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Under-Representation of Minority Politicians. [2021 Conference of the Austrian Political Science Association, (virtual conference), November 25th to November 26th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel (2021): Firing discrimination: selective labor-market responses of firms during the COVID-19 economic crisis. [ECSR Annual Conference 2021, (virtual conference), October 07th to October 08th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Johannes Kunz (2021): Language and Infant Health: Causal Evidence from the Swiss Language Roulette. [IAB-ECSR interdisciplinary conference "Refugee migration and integration revisited: lessons from the recent past", (virtual conference), May 27th to May 28th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Daniel Meierrieks (2021): Merchants of Death: Arms Imports and Terrorism. [Annual Conference of the Swiss Political Science Association, (virtual conference), February 04th to February 05th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Daniel Meierrieks (2021): Merchants of Death: Arms Imports and Terrorism. [11th Annual Meeting of the European Political Science Association, (virtual conference), June 24th to June 25th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Max Schaub (2021): Returnees and Migration Intentions. [18th IMISCOE Annual Conference, (virtual conference), July 07th to July 09th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Didier Ruedin (2021): Risk Preferences and Implicit Racial Bias. [18th IMISCOE Annual Conference, (virtual conference), July 07th to July 09th, 2021] more
Auer, Daniel, and Didier Ruedin (2021): Skin Color and Risk Preferences: Experimental Evidence on the Origins of Structural Discrimination. [Workshop on Survey Experiments in Migration and Integration, (virtual conference), January 29th, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc, Daniel Auer, Daniel Meierrieks, Malcolm Mistry and Max Schaub (2021): Climate Change Literacy and Migration Potential: Micro-Level Evidence from Africa. [15. General Conference of the ECPR, (virtual conference), August 30th to September 03rd, 2021] more
Schaub, Max, and Daniel Auer (2021): Rebel Recruitment and Migration - Evidence from Africa's longest-running insurgency. [Annual Conference of the Swiss Political Science Association, (virtual conference), February 04th to February 05th, 2021] more