Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (in Q J Econ CXVIII(4):1335-1374, 2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on...

In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich Deutschland zunehmend für Menschen aus dem Ausland geöffnet. Die Zahl der Zuwanderer ist deutlich gestiegen. War noch im Jahr 2009 eine Nettoabwanderung zu verzeichnen, so kamen im Jahr 2012 rund 369.000 mehr Personen nach Deutschland als das Land verließen....

In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment...

Many countries pursue an immigration policy that is targeted at attracting high skilled workers. Borjas (1995) has shown that assuming perfect labor markets immigration leads to a welfare gain for the native population, the so-called immigration surplus. Thus, as the labor market for high...

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and institutional determinants, especially labor-market...

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between...

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between...

Am 9. Februar 2010 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht die Berechnung der Hartz-IV-Regelsätze für nicht konform mit der Verfassung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland befunden. In diesem Artikel wird die aktuelle Hartz-IV-Gesetzeslage dargelegt, die Kritik des Bundesverfassungsgerichts...