"This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the UK in the course of the EU Eastern Enlargement. The EU has agreed with the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe transitional periods for the free movement of...

"The specification of macro migration models and, hence, forecasts of migration potentials differ largely in the literature. Two main differences characterise macro migration models: first, whether migration flows or stocks are used as the dependent variable, and, second, whether the...

"This article explores the process of labour market integration in the border region of Saxony, Poland and the Czech Republic. The underlying understanding of integration is combining institutional factors and the behaviour of market players. The sources of this conceptual framework stem from...

"This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the UK in the course of the EU Eastern Enlargement. The EU has agreed with the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe transitional periods for the free movement of...

"The article examines the effects that the migration of foreign workers has on the wages of indigenous workers. Using a cross-sectional sample of the employment statistics for 1990, a translog production function is estimated in which foreign and indigenous workers are differentiated according...

Marcelli E. A. (2004) Unauthorized Mexican immigration, day labour and other lower-wage informal employment in California, Reg. Studies 38, 1-13. Consistent with the marginalization but not the globalization hypothesis, this paper finds that the level of lower-wage informal employment in...

In Ergänzung zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 3/2015 plädiert Achim Dercks, Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag, dafür, den eingeschlagenen Weg mit erleichterten zuwanderungsrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen weiter zu gehen und geeignete Willkommensstrukturen zu etablieren, um die...

Hans-Werner Sinn zeigt die ökonomischen Effekte der Migration und diskutiert die Frage, ob man die Migration so steuern sollte, dass sie zur Stabilisierung und zum Nutzen der bereits ansässigen Bevölkerung beiträgt.

"The article examines the effects that the migration of foreign workers has on the wages of indigenous workers. Using a cross-sectional sample of the employment statistics for 1990, a translog production function is estimated in which foreign and indigenous workers are differentiated according...