This paper explores a variety of potential issues one has to address when estimating intergenerational mobility with historical data. Many studies are potentially affected by bias originating from individuals emigrating and thus dropping out of the sample, missing information on the life-cycle,...

This paper explores a variety of potential issues one has to address when estimating intergenerational mobility with historical data. Many studies are potentially affected by bias originating from individuals emigrating and thus dropping out of the sample, missing information on the life-cycle,...

Policy toward asylum-seekers has been controversial. Since the late 1990s, the EU has been developing a Common European Asylum System, but without clearly identifying the basis for cooperation. Providing a safe haven for refugees can be seen as a public good and this provides the rationale for...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the subsequent reunification process between the former centrally planned GDR and the market-oriented Federal Republic of Germany, rapidly raised fears about mass migration movements from the eastern to the western part. The anxiety of an...

The year 2013 brought no changes to the existing situation as compared with the previous year – either in terms of its overall development or from the point of view of the fact that Russia's migration growth statistics now include also a certain part of temporary (labor) migration. The share...

Household real disposable income and real pensions decelerated by 6.1% and 2.5% in December 2016 in comparison with the same period of 2015 (Fig. 1). In contrast, real wage went up by 2.4% in December 2016 compared to the same period of the previous year

This study investigated the role housing assistance (e.g. rent assistance or social housing), housing wealth and home ownership mortgages have on individuals' incentive to work or on other employment decisions. The study also explored whether intergenerational wealth transfers (as bequests or...

Russia's migration growth has decreased. In 2018, it can amount to 120,000-130,000 persons to become the record-low one in the entire Post-Soviet period and will fail to make up for the natural decline in the population; reduction of the number of the population is expected to take place again

According to the 2016 results, in Russia migration growth is likely to return from lower rates to the level of the past few years. As before, migration virtually ensures completely population growth in Russia. The two largest metropolitan areas (Moscow together with the Moscow Region and St....

For January-July 2015, overall migration results demonstrate a rather sustainable situation. Migration growth constituted 131.4 thousand persons. This is barely 11.5 thousand less (9 p.p.) than for the same period last year. Major changes taking place in Russia's migration pattern consist in the...