Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …

. We find that the long-run costs and benefits for domestic agents depend critically on the skill levels migrants will … obtain in the long run. A failure to integrate the about 800,000 migrants (equivalent to 1% of initial German population …

workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …

Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This …

This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly … preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on German respondents, and construct a threat index … that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and economically …

that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting …This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in … Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are …