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

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 …

capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …

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 …

intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided …

This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly … economic assimilation. Our evidence suggests that refugees exert more assimilation effort in response to local threat, but that …