There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for...

Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht, inwiefern Bildung und Migration Kanäle zur Überwindung von Armut und sozialer Ungleichheit in Lateinamerika und Subsahara-Afrika darstellen können. Kapitel 2 untersucht die Auswirkungen einer Verlängerung der täglichen Schulzeit auf Einschulungsraten...

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's loss of employment - the so-called added worker effect. While previous empirical literature on this topic mainly concentrates on a single country, we take an explicit internationally comparative perspective and...

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys from five Sub-Saharan African countries that enables us to analyze the effect of migrants'...

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys from five Sub-Saharan African countries that enables us to analyze the effect of migrants'...