The paper is devoted to the fertility intentions of the migrants from Russia belonging to the recent wave of so called "Exodus" caused by Russia's invasion in Ukraine in 2022 and its social impact on Russian society. The authors use the disruption hypothesis and predict the drop in the fertility...

Russische Communities in Deutschland könnten vor dem Hintergrund des Ukraine-Krieges in der mittleren bis langen Frist als Destination von russischen Zuwanderern/-innen an Bedeutung gewinnen. Russische Staatsangehörige leben vor allem in Berlin, München und Hamburg. Ihr Anteil an der lokalen...

Russische Communities in Deutschland könnten vor dem Hintergrund des Ukraine-Krieges in der mittleren bis langen Frist als Destination von russischen Zuwanderern/-innen an Bedeutung gewinnen. Russische Staatsangehörige leben vor allem in Berlin, München und Hamburg. Ihr Anteil an der lokalen...

We estimate the effects of the arrival of 2.5 million Syrian migrants in Turkey by the end of 2015 on the labor market outcomes of natives, using a difference-in-differences IV methodology. We show that relaxing the common-trend assumption of this methodology - unlike recent papers in the same...

The sharp devaluation of the ruble in 2014 increased the real returns to Russians from working in a global online labor marketplace, as contracts in this market are dollar-denominated. Russians clearly noticed the opportunity, with Russian hours-worked increasing substantially, primarily on the...

The Orange Revolution unveiled significant political and economic tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown. Analysis using unique micro data collected prior to...

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent...

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that...