EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany … are banned from working in the first few months after arrival. This natural experiment allows isolating a pure immigration …: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment …

affect the nature of the immigration inflow can effectively reduce native income losses and dampen adjustment dynamics in … regional labor markets. One such intervention is to distribute the inflow more evenly over time. Smaller immigration inflows …

accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …

"This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the … magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of … immigrant workers into host-country labor markets and concomitant effects for natives. The paper then turns to immigration …