large and unexpected refugee inflow to Germany that peaked in 2015-2016. Arriving refugees were dispersed across the country …

Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are … their perceived belonging to Germany. Further analyses uncover strong heterogeneities with respect to country of origin and …

How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual … line with the contact hypothesis, living in a high refugee migration district reduced concerns about immigration by 3 pp …

The legal regulations require the minimum wage in Germany to be adjusted biennially which gives rise to a policy … minimum wage setting in Germany, the paper illustrates how such models can be solved using the method of undetermined …

The Panel on Household Finances (PHF) is a new panel survey on household finances and wealth in Germany conducted by … households in Germany. Wealthy households are oversampled using micro-geographic indicators. The survey is designed to be a full … self-contained and comprehensive survey on household finances in Germany, the PHF is part of the Household Finance and …

We draw on two decades of historical data to analyze how regional labor markets in West Germany adjusted to one of the … unemployment differential and the regional migration rate. Both variables increase dramatically after the inflow and decline only …, similar in magnitude to the refugee inflow that Germany is experiencing today, also reduce native income losses markedly but …

impact of three sources of the demographic dependence of inflation expectations using data for Germany. Overall, our findings …