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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

The paper studies the effects of a one-sided minimum wage in a two-country model of intra-industry trade, in which multinational firms...

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