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Immigration: How Does it Benefit the Native Population?

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  • Michele Battisti
  • Gabriel Felbermayr
  • Panu Poutvaara

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Germany is currently experiencing a huge flood of people. A large share of these refugees will remain in Germany. Appropriate institutional framework conditions need to be created in the labour market and in the social security system to produce a win-win situation with regard to immigration, from which both the native population and immigrants will benefit in economic terms. Germany's newly introduced minimum wage and any increase in standard Hartz IV rates stand to threaten this goal.

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  • Michele Battisti & Gabriel Felbermayr & Panu Poutvaara, 2015. "Immigration: How Does it Benefit the Native Population?," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 68(18), September.
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    1. Stähler, Nikolai, 2017. "A model-based analysis of the macroeconomic impact of the refugee migration to Germany," Discussion Papers 05/2017, Deutsche Bundesbank.
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    8. Gabriel Felbermayr, 2016. "Seizing the Opportunity," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 17(3), pages 16-26, December.

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    JEL classification:

    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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