This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on … emphasis on their advantages and disadvantages. The recent immigration policies of a number of major immigrant … and international students is discussed, as is and the recent emergence of two-step immigration policies that favor …

The paper examines the impact of immigration on innovation. We exploit an immigrant placement policy which took place … negative impact on innovations. Instead, our panel estimates suggest that immigration had no or even a positive impact on …

Zuwanderung weiter vergrößern und ist ein wichtiges Fundament für eine noch größere Akzeptanz der Migranten in unserer …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated by the 2004 expansion of the European Union to Eastern European …

A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between … representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus … on the importance of perceptions of migrants' ability to do one's job in relation to these fears. Moreover, we compare …

decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area …

We analyze public expectations about migrants’ provision of work effort as a driving force in the self …-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty’s (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how … country-specific public expectations affect the migrants’ choice about their country of destination. As a result, we relate …