Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and institutional determinants, especially labor-market...

In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment...

In seiner 50. Studie präsentiert der Kronberger Kreis, der wissenschaftliche Beirat der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft, ein Konzept zur Förderung der produktiven Arbeit von gering qualifizierten Arbeitslosen. Die Schriftenreihe erscheint mit dieser Ausgabe in einem neuen Design. In dem vorgestellten...