Family reunification was virtually the only way for non-EC-foreigners to immigrate to Germany after the recruitment … reunification is limited. In the paper, the reunification of foreign families whose head lives in Germany is considered using data … reflecting the economic and social situation of the family's head on the decision to have spouse and children come to Germany is …

The work permit is the most important instrument to control the labour market access of foreign immigrants in Germany …

We analyze the impact of increased immigration on labor market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of county … 167 larger regions. We study two measures of immigration, the change in the share of foreigners between 1985 and 1989 as … spurious. Foreigners tend to be concentrated in lower unemployment areas but unemployment tends to be mean reverting during the …