Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics on 30 April 2025, LG 0.423
You are invited to join the weekly Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics on 30 April 2025, from 13.15 to 14.45 pm. The seminar will be held in room LG 0.423. Christina Gathmann (University of Luxembourg) will be talking about “Arriving LATE: Access to Citizenship and Immigrant Integration”.
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Migration, and whether to restrict or even revoke citizenship has once again become a central topic in public debates both in Europe and North America. We analyze whether faster access to citizenship fosters the economic integration of immigrants. Our empirical setting is Germany, which went from a strict concept of citizenship based on ‘jus sanguinis’ to a more open citizenship policy. We make use of discontinuities in residency requirements faced by first-generation immigrants to estimate LATEs based on Local Randomization and RDD approaches. We find that a more liberal citizenship policy acts as a catalyst for integration, especially for immigrant women. Women’s labor force participation increases by 8.9 percentage points and their earnings by 21.3%. We do not find any significant effects on immigrant men.