In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income differential, employment rates, and migrations stocks as...

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...

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...

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...

In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income differential, employment rates, and migrations stocks as...

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...