effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …

To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of … for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never …

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of … for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never …

We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany … are banned from working in the first few months after arrival. This natural experiment allows isolating a pure immigration …: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment …