Armed conflicts, natural disasters and infrastructure projects continue to force millions into migration. This is especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when forced to leave their homelands and settle within...

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000 - 2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

In der heutigen Wissens- und Informationsgesellschaft sind Innovationen elementar für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung. Jedoch kann die privatwirtschaftliche Innovationstätigkeit aufgrund des Vorliegens von Marktunvollkommenheiten aus gesamtgesellschaftlicher Sicht zu gering ausfallen. Dies...