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

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years, and document key differences to the US case. While the … conditions do matter, and the employment rate of some earlier cohorts collapsed when structural shocks hit the German labor …

line with the contact hypothesis, living in a high refugee migration district reduced concerns about immigration by 3 pp …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 …