In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...

How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to...

In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...

This study focuses on the social situation in carbon-intensive regions and the role of migration in defining its quality. The analysis examines whether carbon-intensive areas, especially those with large outward migration, are more vulnerable to adverse social trends than other regions. Our...

This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on individual schooling attainment and migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of FUNDEF, a large federal program that redistributed public education finance across Brazilian...

This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...

Über die Migrationsbiografien, -wege und -erfahrungen der in Deutschland lebenden Zuwanderer gibt es bislang nur wenig gesicherte wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse. Eine im Jahr 2013 begonnene Längsschnittstudie soll diese Lücke schließen: Für die neue IAB-SOEP-Migrationsstichprobe werden...

This paper analyzes the effects of recent Venezuelan immigration to Colombia on the fiscal balance, the labor market, and economic growth. For this purpose, we built a dynamic general equilibrium model with a search and matching structure in the labor market. The higher fiscal spending to...

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...