Research

Work in progress

The effect of migration on careers of natives: evidence from long-term care
joint with Peter Haan  [presented at ESPE 2023, EALE 2023] [IZA DP] - Under review

Abstract:  This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that increased foreign staffing reduces labor shortages but has diverging implications for the careers of native workers in the sector. While it causes a transition of those currently employed to jobs with better working conditions, higher wages, and non-manual tasks, it simultaneously diminishes re-employment prospects for the unemployed natives with LTC experience.

Featured in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Migration and native health: new evidence from the workplace
[presented at Lisbon Migration Economics Workshop]
[accepted for Junior Migration Workshop in Leiden (April 2024), EALE 2024]

Abstract: This paper evaluates the effects of immigration on health in the workplace. Using a rich linked employer-employee dataset, I demonstrate that firms with a higher concentration of foreign workers experience lower rates of sick leave among native employees. The effect on the total sick rate is smaller in magnitude. The results are consistent with foreign employment alleviating understaffing and/or prompting career changes, which disproportionately reduce the associated health hazards for natives. The health improvements are observed solely in men, are concentrated in blue-collar industries and driven by foreigners with a short tenure in the German labor market.

Migration, prices and availability of long-term care

joint with Peter Haan and Julia Schmieder

Workplace diversity and career progression of migrants

joint with Clara Schäper