Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … workers? Focusing on the large, sudden and unanticipated wave of migration from East to West Germany after German … reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare native wage reactions across different segments of the West German …

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

research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …

In this paper we present important correlations between immigration and labor market outcomes of native workers in the … zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …

positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …

appears negative. These contradictory findings suggest that the impact of immigration on native wages varies significantly … from the O*NET skill taxonomy, we create more homogeneous skill groups, enabling a precise analysis of immigration's impact … between native wages and immigrant shares. In contrast, when groups are based on education-experience, the relationship …

Germany from 1997-2016, we identify mass layoffs and estimate the trajectory of earnings and employment of observationally …-employment probabilities and post-layoff wages and is not driven by selective return migration. Key mechanisms include sorting into lower …

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 …