The European Commission follows a harmonized approach for calculating structural (potential) output for EU member states that takes into account labor as an important ingredient. This paper shows how the recent huge migrants inflow to Europe affects trend output. Due to the fact that the...

Immigration has become recently one of the most important subjects in socio-economic debates. In many countries immigrants are commonly presented as a threat to host economies and societies. On top of this fiscal impacts of immigration are ones of the hottest and most controversial topics in...

Im Zuge des demografischen Wandels schrumpft das Angebot an Arbeitskräften, während die Zahl der Rentner deutlich steigt. Die Autoren prognostizieren, wie sich das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial in Deutschland bis 2050 entwickeln wird. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass - in der langen Frist - Zuwanderung...

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women´s rights to a destination with a relatively high women´s rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of...

The year 2013 brought no changes to the existing situation as compared with the previous year – either in terms of its overall development or from the point of view of the fact that Russia's migration growth statistics now include also a certain part of temporary (labor) migration. The share...

Labour market developments in the Euro area diverged significantly since 2008. Economic literature frequently refers to labour mobility as pillar for the functioning of currency areas. Applying the CGE model PuMA, we quantitatively analyse to what extent labour mobility can contribute to...

This paper briefly reviews the existing literature on potential migration into the enlarged European Union, reconciles the results with recent evidence and presents an additional migration scenario. The estimation procedure accounts for both sending and receiving countries' unobserved...

As compared to the previous year, Q1 2017 saw a decrease in the migration growth in Russia's population and a downturn of Ukraine's role as a major migration donor. The number of internal migrants is still stable with lines of migration remaining unchanged. The number of temporary migrants...

Household real disposable income and real pensions decelerated by 6.1% and 2.5% in December 2016 in comparison with the same period of 2015 (Fig. 1). In contrast, real wage went up by 2.4% in December 2016 compared to the same period of the previous year

Russia's migration growth has decreased. In 2018, it can amount to 120,000-130,000 persons to become the record-low one in the entire Post-Soviet period and will fail to make up for the natural decline in the population; reduction of the number of the population is expected to take place again