Economics
EU Migration Is Helping Germany's Economic Boom
Migrants walk to a first registration point of the German federal police after they crossed the Austrian-German border in the small Bavarian village of Simbach, southern Germany, on Nov. 2, 2015.
Photographer: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images
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Germany’s economy would have grown more slowly in recent years if it weren’t for migration from other European Union nations, according to the German Institute for Economic Research.
The Berlin-based organization estimates that immigration added an average of 0.2 percent a year to output each year from 2011 through 2016. Over that period, more than five million EU citizens moved to the country, filling job vacancies and contributing to consumer spending.