Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...

This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. To this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a German native pupil, whereas others believe it was...

The attractiveness of a tourist destination is partly dependent on its environmental and climatic resource base. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An application of the pooled travel cost model using survey...

This paper employed a widely accepted theoretical concept, the ?theory of migrant networks? to look at the recent immigration and absorption experience of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in Germany. Consistent with network theory, the social background...

Using uncertainty about the future returns to migration, the option value theory of migration can explain low migration rates in spite of huge wage differences. This paper presents the theory in a simple two-period framework and uses ethnic Germans in the CIS to find empirical support for it....

Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht beschreibt die IAB-Projektion des Erwerbspersonenpotenzials bis zum Jahr 2050. Die Vorausschätzung basiert auf den zwei Grundbausteinen Bevölkerungsprojektion und Projektion der Potenzialerwerbsquoten. Die Rechnungen sind disaggregiert nach Altersgruppen und...

In der Debatte über Integrationspolitik für Personen mit Migrationshintergrund kommt der Teilnahme am Arbeitsmarkt eine Schlüsselrolle zu. Der Einstieg über die duale Berufsausbildung stellt für Jugendliche allgemein - aber insbesondere für Migranten, die in den höheren...