Your great-grandparents’ socio-economic status still predicts your status today, according to research by Sebastian Braun from the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of...

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

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

Women's suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Voting rights, however, were not won by force or threats...

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

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

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...

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