The Effect of Immigration on the German Housing Market

Umut Unal, Bernd Hayo and Isil Erol

MAGKS Papers on Economics from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung)

Abstract: This study provides evidence of the causal impact of immigration on German house prices, flat prices, and flat rents using an extensive dataset covering 382 administrative districts over the period 2004−2020. Employing a panel-data approach and a manually constructed past settlement instrument, we show that international migration has a significantly positive short-term effect on German flat prices and rents. House prices are not significantly affected. We estimate that an increase in international migration of 1% of the initial district population causes a hike in flat prices of up to 3% as well as a hike in flat rents of about 1%. The increase in flat prices is more than twice as high as this at the lower end of the market, whereas the flat rental market demonstrates a more linear response. We also discover that immigration’s impact on flat prices and rents does not significantly differ across rural and urban areas within the country.

Keywords: Immigration; Housing prices; Rents; Instrumental variable; IV quantile regression; German housing market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 R23 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-int, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Working Paper: The Effect of Immigration on the German Housing Market (2024)
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