employment and the wages of native workers are the focus of the above articles. The authors agree that Germany needs immigration …The size and composition of the most recent wave of immigrants to Germany and the potential effects of immigration on …. Thus, the existence of a sizeable amount of low-skilled immigration cannot be prevented. A major challenge is going to be …

Since 2010 net immigration to Germany has risen significantly. Net immigration to Germany in 2012 is estimated to total … investigates the determinants of immigration to Germany and its outlook for the coming years. It shows that differences in … employment opportunities in Germany and in the rest of Europe largely explain migration fl ows. Owing to Germany’s attractive …

considerably. The authors quantify the reduction of the workforce in Germany until 2050. Moreover, they analyse whether immigration … may possibly offset the projected labour supply shrinkage. It is shown that - in the long term - immigration signifi …, immigration will notably increase labour supply in Germany. Only in 2030 will the workforce shrink back to its current level. …

development is not inevitable. On the one hand, measures to increase labor supply, such as higher immigration, a rise in the full-employment …

Almost a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall, there are still more women in employment in eastern Germany …. Immediately after reunification (1991), the employment rate for women in western Germany was 54.6 percent but since then, this has … increased year on year, reaching 67.5 percent in 2012. In eastern Germany, female employment initially plummeted after the fall …