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. …

employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline in the first years after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts … conditions do matter, and the employment rate of some earlier cohorts collapsed when structural shocks hit the German labor …

How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual …-level panel data for the years 2012–2018, I show that after 2015 concerns about immigration increased by about 21 pp. and support … line with the contact hypothesis, living in a high refugee migration district reduced concerns about immigration by 3 pp …

spending on immigrants and focus on natives' welfare instead. However, most research on the so-called immigration-welfare nexus …

employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German … norms, West-East friendships, intermarriage, and child care infrastructure. The dynamic evolution of the local effects on …