We study how low and medium-skilled refugee immigration affects natives’ labor market outcomes. Using individual-level panel data on the German workforce for 2011-2019 and exogenous regional variation from processing authorities’ distances, we find that a larger inflow of refugees to a district increases the probability of full-time employment for incumbent workers. Fewer outflows of employment drive this effect. The yearly estimates suggest positive labor demand responses in the short run-in occupations that supply services to the refugees - and positive labor supply effects in the medium run-in manufacturing occupations. Wages, job task composition, and job changes remain unaffected, though positive mobility responses are observed.
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