Foreign labor in a reunited Germany

The author discusses migration into Germany primarily since World War II with a focus on the impact on the German labor market. The radical changes that came about in the late 1980s as a result of granting political asylum to third-world refugees and of the readmittance of persons of German descent who wanted to repatriate are then assessed. Following reunification the author foresees new trends in migration into the country and predicts some of their effects. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND GER) (ANNOTATION)