German Abstract: In diesem Beitrag werden einige der wichtigsten Ergebnisse der Studie „Qualifikationen, Potenziale und Lebensverläufe syrischer Asylbewerber in Bayern“, welche im zweiten Halbjahr 2017 durchgeführt wurde, skizziert. Unsere Studie ergänzt die Literatur zu Asylbewerbern in...

English abstract: Asylum seekers with a rejected application account for three out of five illegal migrants in Germany. The objective of this paper is to calculate asylum seekers’ ex ante returns on overstaying. It takes advantage of a unique survey designed to permit estimation of a...

English abstract: Asylum seekers with a rejected application account for three out of five illegal migrants in Germany. This research sheds some light on the motives behind the decision of asylum seekers to overstay. We conducted a survey on a population of Afghan asylum seekers in three large...