In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income differential, employment rates, and migrations stocks as...

2013 waren weltweit rund 51 Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht, ein Drittel außerhalb ihres Heimatlandes. 2014 wurden 571.000 Asylerstanträge in der EU gestellt, 173.000 in Deutschland. Ein Großteil der Menschen, die über den Seeweg in die EU kommen, stammt aus Ländern mit Krieg und...

Goods trade and international mobility of labor are typically analyzed separately. While there is excellent research in both fields, far less is known about the interrelationships between international migration and international trade. This paper provides a first structurally estimable model of...

This dissertation was prepared as a collection of 4 research articles in the field of international trade with a focus on gravity modeling and estimation for international trade and migration and on domestic firm-level labor market effects of internationalization. Chapter 2 structurally...

This study examines processes of language acquisition among new immigrants from Poland and Turkey in different European destinations focusing on the first few months after arrival. Starting from a human capital framework, a variety of pre- and post-migration conditions of language learning are...

This paper analyses the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country's labour market in a specific-factors-two-sector model with heterogeneous labour (low-, medium-, and high-skilled). We assume price-setting behaviour in both manufacturing and services sectors. The...