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

the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high … underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

attrition and missing wages are also addressed. Using German household panel surveys from 1984 to 2014 and home country …

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 … representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus …

suffers more from further immigration in Germany than in the UK. -- immigration ; unemployment ; wages ; labor markets ; panel …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …

. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much …, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those …

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 …

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …

wages and rising wage dispersion over time. …