study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …

the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …

register data for the period 1975-97 do not confirm the hypothesis that penetration of migrants into skill cells has a … significant negative effect on the earnings and employment opportunities of native men. The results indicate that a 10 percent … rise of the share of immigrants in the workforce would in general reduce wages by less than one percent and not increase …

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic …

A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between … background of the large-scale influx of refugees into Germany between 2015 and 2016, this paper uses data from a unique and … on the importance of perceptions of migrants' ability to do one's job in relation to these fears. Moreover, we compare …

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 after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after … systematic trend. Still, economic conditions do matter, and employment collapsed in some cohorts after structural shocks hit the …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …