EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant … 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 …

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus … employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline in the first years after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts … conditions do matter, and the employment rate of some earlier cohorts collapsed when structural shocks hit the German labor …

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 …: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment …

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 …

the years before exit. For this reason we evaluate whether market exits differ significantly in their employment … important characteristics measured at start-up. The comparison of the employment growth rates among the thus formed groups …. A considerable number of firms exiting from 1995 until 1998 has experienced continuing employment losses or at least an …