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 …

employment effect of immigration during the liberalization of migration policies from 2005 to 2018 using a spatial approach. A …Germany has undergone a significant migration policy shift since the early 2000s. This paper examines the total … effect of immigration in the German labour market. In a further step, we divide our sample into two subsamples to capture the …

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland … immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. While OLS estimates suggest that immigrants … have crowded out natives, our quasi-experimental results reveal that immigration has in fact reduced unemployment and …

Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is … often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based … on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that there is no simple link between immigration and crime, but …

Switzerland, but had no impact on unemployment. Moreover, such immigration restriction lowered the average skill level of the …Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This … quota system to evaluate this migration policy. An instrument variable of antiimmigration attitudes is used to address the …

state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …

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 …

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 …

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …