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

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 …

spending on immigrants and focus on natives' welfare instead. However, most research on the so-called immigration-welfare nexus …

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 … demand effects complements the literature that isolates labor supply shocks from immigration, so as to gain a more …