Im Jahr 2022 sind so viele Menschen nach Deutschland zugewandert wie nie zuvor in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Rund 1,46 Millionen Personen sind mehr hierher zugezogen, als das Land verlassen haben, was über ein Viertel mehr als der bisherige Höchstwert aus dem Jahr 2015 von 1,14...

This paper uses the first wave of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), to assess whether or not male migrant workers in the UK are more likely to be over-qualified than the UK born. It also explores whether immigrants from different countries and arriving under...

We evaluate the importance of spillover effects of national migration policies by estimating the effect of stricter rules on family reunification in Denmark in 2002 on migration to neighboring countries. We reach two main conclusions. First, we show that stricter rules for reunification lead to...

Im Jahr 2022 sind so viele Menschen nach Deutschland zugewandert wie nie zuvor in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Rund 1,46 Millionen Personen sind mehr hierher zugezogen, als das Land verlassen haben, was über ein Viertel mehr als der bisherige Höchstwert aus dem Jahr 2015 von 1,14...

As the 2012 presidential campaign gets under way, there will be intense public debate about the direction of economic policy. The continuing torpor of the U.S. economy and mounting government debt oblige candidates to detail how they would improve prospects for economic growth and reduce the...

This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of interior immigration enforcement...

Formal agreements on international economic migration are relatively rare; yet, important cooperation on migration has taken place using bilateral labor migration treaties. This paper details the conditions under which immigrant receiving countries use these treaties and tests the implications of...

I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If so, that is not a good outcome. Why should native workers lose out to immigrants? To come to terms with my worry, I began to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and...