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

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 wage...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This paper studies the employment effects of one of the largest forced population movements in history, the influx of millions of German...

This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. The expellees were...

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in...

Matching university places to students is not as clear cut or as straightforward as it ought to be. By investigating the matching algorithm...

National sentiment can have major implications for individual consumption and investment choices but has been little researched by economists....

Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by force, nor did men grant it...