Deutschland wird auch in Zukunft ein bedeutendes Zuwanderungsziel in Europa sein. Angesichts der längerfristigen Arbeitsmarkterfordernisse und der EU-Osterweiterung wird aber in der Öffentlichkeit eine verstärkte Steuerung von Immigrationen diskutiert. Das neue Zuwanderungsgesetz erkennt zum...

This paper examines the relationship between mobile internet, employment and structural transformation in Rwanda. Thanks to its ability to enable access to a wide range of ICT technologies, internet coverage has the potential to affect the dynamics and the composition of employment...

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...

In this paper I share my thoughts on immigration policy. As a social scientist it is appropriate to assess the consequences, the costs and benefits, of alternative immigration policies. The policies that a country adopts regarding immigration, however, should be the outcome of a political...