Seminar in Macroeconomics - EU enlargement and (temporary) migration: Effects on labour market outcomes in Germany

Time
Monday, 24. October 2022
12:00 - 13:15

Location
G307

Organizer
Chair of International and Monetary Macroeconomics

Speaker:
Matthias Hertweck (Deutsche Bundesbank)

EU enlargement and (temporary) migration: Effects on labour market outcomes in Germany

(joint with Luisa Hammer)

Abstract: EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immigration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrants stay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EU immigrants into 'new arrivals' and 'stayers' drawing on administrative social security data (2005-2017). This novel strategy allows us to separately identify their potentially opposing short- and medium-run effects on labour market outcomes in Germany. We find a transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom of the wage distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment.

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