There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

In Deutschland wird zunehmend die demografische Lücke und der daraus resultierende Fachkräftemangel diskutiert. Außerdem ist das Land in den letzten Jahren immer mehr zu einem Einwanderungsland geworden. Insbesondere seit 2010 hat die Zuwanderung aus der EU und seit 2014 aus anderen Ländern...

We provide estimates of the effect of migrant labor supply on resident employment. We exploit variation in the number of asylum seekers eligible to the suspension of a major hiring restriction implemented in a subset of German counties. Our difference-in-difference design allows us to provide...