This paper exploits a reform that facilitated the recognition of foreign occupational
qualifications for non-EU immigrants in Germany. Using detailed administrative social …

Immigration is often blamed for increasing unemployment among local workers. However,
standard models, such as the neoclassical model and the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides …

We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from
the United States. Exploiting an unexpected change in firms' likelihood of securing low-wage …

The impact of immigration on a receiving economy is heavily influenced by individual firms'
recruitment decisions and subsequent performance (Kerr et al., 2015). Yet, two major …

The Government of Jordan declared that there are more than one million Syrian refugees in
Jordan while UNHCR statistics show that the number is about 700,000. Nonetheless, it is …

This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in
Germany on the wages and employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented …

While Western countries worry about labor shortages, their institutional barriers to skill
transferability prevent immigrants from fully utilizing foreign qualifications. Combining …

This paper studies the labor market effects of out-and in-migration in the context of cross-
border commuting. It investigates an EU policy reform that granted Czech citizens full access …

This paper estimates the causal effect of recruitment competition on the labor demand for
high-skilled foreign workers. I assemble a new data set, combining a firm-level panel of all …

Skill shortages are a growing concern in the context of rapid technological change, raising
the question of their cost for the economy and of the effectiveness of policies aiming to …