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 …

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

. 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 …

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

legal protection: the regulation of immigration and representations of national identity in the public sphere. The core of … to gloss over differences between the Anglo-Saxon classical immigration countries, where majorities are of migratory …

migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with very high rates of maternal employment, whereas West …

Does large-scale refugee immigration affect crime rates in receiving countries? We address this question based on the …