Does immigration accelerate sectoral change from low- to high-productivity sectors? This paper analyzes the effect of one of the...

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans...

This paper introduces collective bargaining at the firm and at the sector level into the heterogeneous firm model of Melitz and...

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies have, however,...

The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany's energy policy which led to the...

Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers' employment histories, we investigate how workers'...

Globalisation is widely believed to disadvantage some groups in society. In fact, current debates on the effect of globalisation on...

We draw on two decades of historical data to analyze how regional labor markets in West Germany adjusted to one of the largest forced...

This paper studies how the local environment in receiving counties affected the economic, social, and political integration of the...

This paper shows that across multiple generations, the persistence of occupational and educational attainment in Germany is larger...

The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany's energy policy which led to the...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 16: The authors Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger and Thomas Oechsle show that there is a clearly negative...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 72: The demographic change creates powerful challenges. In their Kiel Policy Brief the Kiel researchers...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 52: Immigrants are on average more mobile than natives and react stronger to regional differences in wages and...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 70: The authors Sebastian Braun, Wolfgang Lechthaler and Mariya Mileva show that trade liberalization increases...

The current asylum system is contradictory, unfair, and both costly and hazardous for all involved. Under the present rules, refugees...

This paper studies the implementation of quotas in matching markets. In a controlled laboratory environment, we compare the...

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can...