EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

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

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 … increases particularly in non-tradable sectors in the short run. At the same time, unemployment drops while individual wages do …