pupils compared to second- and third generation immigrant pupils in Germany. I first document that differences in parental … are not sufficient. Conditional on these factors, there is a "polarization" of educational choices: migrants are more … training than their background and skills would predict. I then show that this polarization is driven by the migrant pupils …

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 …

Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on native wages & labor supply. We … operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in various models of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions … negative direct fiscal effect that has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as …

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

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

supply, earnings and welfare over the life cycle. The bias increases part-time employment strongly, induces flatter long … joint taxation. The most significant impact of the bias appears for college-educated women. …

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an … achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high … intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …

that such a concept of racism is not very helpful in understanding actual patterns of discrimination. Phenotype, ethnicity … and religion each have independent effects on discrimination. Tendencies towards discrimination differ greatly between …