Durch zurückgehende Geburtenraten, Abwanderung und gewandelte Berufsvorstellungen von Jugendlichen sehen sich landwirtschaftliche Betriebe immer weniger in der Lage, ausscheidende Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter durch qualifizierte Nachwuchskräfte zu ersetzen. In besonderem Maße gilt dies...

Motivated by the regional imbalances and the long-lasting trends of low incomes, unemployment and depopulation in many of Europe's rural areas, this research delves into rural non-farm entrepreneurship as a potential way out. Up to now scholars from the field of entrepreneurial research have...

While the rural exodus dominates public and scientific debates, considerably less attention has been given to studying why the overwhelming majority of people worldwide remain immobile. As a consequence of this, the reasons why people stay, especially in economically weaker rural areas, are...

Producer organisations bear great potential to link small-scale farmers to markets. In post-communist economies, historically negative attitudes towards cooperatives are blamed as barriers to collaboration, but little is known about the broader range of motives to (not) cooperate. We use a...

[Objectives] The overall objective of the study is to address the causes of migration and its consequences for rural areas of Kosovo. More specifically, we focus on the motives of migrants, the impact of migration on households left behind and the socio-economic situation of returning migrants....

Der Kosovo steht derzeit vor der Herausforderung, tausende aus Westeuropa zurückgekehrte Migranten zu reintegrieren. Viele von ihnen hatten das Land im Winter 2014/15 in Scharen verlassen. Diskutiert wurde dieser "Exodus" im IAMO Policy Brief 24. Steigende Asylbewerberzahlen in den Zielländern...

Kosovo currently faces the challenge of reintegrating thousands of returned migrants who left the country in 2014 /2015. This migration wave was discussed in the IAMO Policy Brief 24. After facing restrictive asylum policies in the destination countries in Western Europe, more than 20,000 people...

In this study, we augment Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) with an institutional embeddedness logic to develop and test a mediated model of the effects of perceived corruption on attitudes, social norms and perceived behavioral control, which in turn determine entrepreneurial...

Kosova aktualisht përballet me sfidën e riintegrimit të mijëra migrantëve të kthyer që u larguan nga vendi në 2014 / 2015. Kjo valë emigrimi u diskutua në IAMO Policy Brief 24 (Përmbledhje). Pas përballjes me politikat e kufizuara të azilit të vendeve të destinacionit në Evropën...