Zusammenfassung Wie viele Menschen aus den mittel- und osteuropäischen Ländern (MOEL) werden von dem mit dem EU-Beitritt verbundenen Recht auf Freizügigkeit Gebrauch machen und nach Westen in die „alten" EU-Länder wandern? Die vorgestellten Simulationen ergeben eine Bandbreite für das...

Was the October Revolution inevitable? If yes, what was its real character? If not, could it have been avoided or taken a different course? What was the role played in it by Lenin? Using the dialectical method of analysis, an attempt is made to provide answers to these questions. The following...

Zusammenfassung Historische Ereignisse spiegeln sich in Preisveränderungen auf Finanzmärkten. Dieses Papier untersucht die deutsche Kriegsgeschichte während des zweiten Weltkriegs anhand der Preisentwicklung der in der Schweiz gehandelten deutschen Staatsanleihen. Die Resultate unserer...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag erinnert an Erich Preiser (1900-1967), den großen deutschen Nationalökonomen und von vielen Studenten verehrten akademischerl Lehrer. Aus seinen Schriften wird seine Einschätzung der Zukunft der sozialen Marktwirtschaft und die methodische Grundfrage der...

In 2007, the foreign-born population in the United States reached 38 million persons, comprising approximately 12.6 percent of the United States population. Of the foreign born, approximately 10.3 million or 29 percent were illegally in the country. Because the foreign born were heavily...

Abstract In this paper we distinguish between three channels that determine attitudes to further immigration: labour market concerns, welfare concerns, and racial or cultural concerns. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey. A unique feature of the survey is that it...

Summary This article seeks empirically for some brain effects in the migration flows from East European countries to Germany. Using previously unpublished Eurostat data we find that highly qualified persons tend to immigrate overproportionally into Germany so that the stock of human capital...

Summary Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African...

Summary This paper examines the purpose of remittances using individual data of migrants in Germany. Particular attention is paid to migrants’ savings and transfers to family members in the home country. Our findings indicate that migrants who intend to stay in Germany only temporarily have a...

Summary Mirror data are observations of bilateral variables such as trade from one country to another, reported by both countries. The efficient estimation of a bilateral variable from its mirror data, for example when compiling consistent international trade statistics, requires information...