International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...

This paper strives to broaden understanding of fertility transition in post-Communist countries, starting in the early 1990s. The integration of findings from distinct avenues of fertility research and incorporation of results of an empirical analysis of new kinds into the approaches of...

In the beginning of the period under discussion each of the countries in the region was either following European patterns of emigration or was actually serving as a migratory target (for instance in the case of Moldova). In the 1970s and 1980s (in other words well before the actual collapse of...

Die Zuwanderung nach Deutschland und die Integration von Migranten in die deutsche Gesellschaft findet seit einigen Jahren hohe Aufmerksamkeit, und statistische Informationen über das Zuwanderungsgeschehen und über die in Deutschland lebenden Migranten werden angefordert. Denn um eine...

Den ostdeutschen Flächenländern wird es in ihrer Gesamtheit zukünftig möglicherweise nicht mehr gelingen, die Effekte des demographischen Wandels durch Wanderungsgewinne zu kompensieren. Dies ist das Ergebnis verschiedener Projektionen zur zukünftigen Entwicklung der Studierendenzahl, die...

Central banks in developing countries, wanting to devalue the domestic currency, usually intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up foreign currency using domestic money-often backing this up with sterilization to counter inflationary pressures. Such interventions are usually...

This paper provides the first firm-level econometric evidence on the skill-bias of ICT in developing countries using a unique new dataset of manufacturing firms in Brazil and India. I use detailed information on firms’ adoption of ICT and the educational composition of their workforce to...