We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university‐educated immigrants in...

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

Mit dem vorliegenden Bericht werden erstmals Schätzungen für die Stille Reserve zur Diskussion gestellt, die das bisher nur auf Westdeutschland angewandte IAB-Konzept der Stillen Reserve auf Gesamtdeutschland übertragen. Die grundlegende These, mit der die Stille Reserve beim IAB-Ansatz...

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

As recent efforts to reform immigration policy at the federal level have failed, states have started to take immigration matters into their own hands and researchers have been paying closer attention to state dynamics surrounding immigration policy. Yet, to this date, there is not a clear...

Die Elektrifizierung des Antriebsstrangs bei Personenkraftwagen hat langfristig einen negativen Effekt auf das Wirtschaftswachstum und auf die Beschäftigung. Analysen bezüglich der regionalen Auswirkungen einer Elektrifizierung des Antriebsstrangs sind bislang jedoch nur wenig vorhanden und...