In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital …

This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the … using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …

The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the … explanatory variable in a study of European bilateral migration flows to Germany between 2006 and 2012. We show that, while … expectations and current economic conditions at origin are significant determinants of migration, diversion effects account for 78 …

recently conducted. Also in Germany, a large field experiment has examined the practicability and potentials of this approach …

almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations …

analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU countries with … different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these … countries, women's determinants of labor market transitions are compared by means of pooled multinominal logit-regressions. The …

-SILC) and several institutional and macroeconomic features captured from other data-sets. Potential determinants of …