introduced in August 2012 - has affected entry-level wages of non-EU migrants in Germany. The Blue Card was targeted at non …-EU university graduates with degrees received or recognized in Germany. It provided immediate residence to students with a working …-in-difference approach and unique data on national and international graduates in Germany between 2011-2014. We find that the introduction of …

2011, half a century after the bi-lateral agreement between Turkey and Germany on labor recruitment in 1961, migration …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States with little employment …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …