Using a comprehensive and newly organized dataset the present article shows that the human capital content of emigrants from Italy significantly increased during the 1990 s . This is even more dramatically the case if we consider emigrating college graduates, whose share relative to total...

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of children may delay emancipation. We then provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for...

We investigate empirically how industrialized countries and U.S. states share consumption risk at horizons between one and thirty years. U.S. federal states share about 50 percent of their permanent idiosyncratic risk through cross-state capital income flows. While insurance against transitory...

Der Brexit, die Wahl Donald Trumps, die Zugewinne des Front National in Frankreich, der AfD in Deutschland und Geert Wilders in den Niederlanden: Der Populismus erlebt derzeit einen Höhenflug. Was sind die Ursachen und die Effekte dieser Erfolgswellen? Nach Ansicht von Norbert Berthold,...