on a new and larger sample of about 2,600 adults from the German Socioeconomic Panel-Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). We find …

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new … workers: migrants are heavily concentrated in agglomerations and work in different jobs than natives do. This gives an …

In this paper we analyse the impact of labour market conditions at immigration on school performance for the immigrants …

market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine immigration's role in enabling U.S. commuting zones to … a larger proportion than those of the native-born in trade-exposed regions, the contribution of immigration to labor … with high trade exposure was only three-fifths that in regions with low exposure. Immigration may do more to aid adjustment …

Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of … migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz … (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different productivity levels and imperfect substitutability between migrants …