Autore: Klaus F. Zimmermann

Recent U.S. immigration reform proposals have focused almost exclusively on regulating the population of low-skilled foreign workers. High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market contends that p …

Die Zuwanderungspolitik der letzten Jahrzehnte ist eine Politik des gebremsten Erfolges. Immer weniger Migranten stehen dem Arbeitsmarkt aktiv zur Verfügung. Falsche Arbeitsmarktanreize spielen dabei …

German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in the face of high unemployment and a shrinking labor force due to demographic cha …

Einwanderung als Bedrohung? Thilo Sarrazin hat mit seinen Thesen zur erblichen Intelligenz ethnischer Gruppen alte Weltbilder in die gesellschaftliche Diskussion zurückgeholt, so auch die Angst vor d …

Selected by Princeton University as Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics for 2010. Are immigrants from the new EU member states a threat to the Western welfare state? Do they t …

This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU. More specifically, its main purpose is to enlighten the growing and yet rather uninformed deb …

This volume presents Richard Blundell’s outstanding research on the modern economic analysis of labor markets and public policy reforms. Professor Blundell’s hugely influential work has enhanced grea …

Developed countries, especially in Europe, face a number of issue related to migration: social and economic disruptions caused by the declining demand for unskilled labour and resulting unemployment, …

The book collects articles published by Daniel Hamermesh between 1969 and 2013 dealing with the general topic of the demand for labor. The first section presents empirical studies of basic issues in …

For most countries, women’s labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men’s have fallen. Concomitantly, men’s and women’s wages and occupational structures have been converging. Thi …

Why in 2015 are there still large gender differences in economic success? This volume consists of a set of state of the art research articles to answer this question. Focus areas include educational …

How immigrants and their descendants fare in the host society and in particular in the labor market is a very important question. While differences among ethnicities have been found to be marked and …

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Economic Theory, academic policy analysis and public policy design are becoming more interdependent. Hence, the demands for close interactions between the policy community and the research community …

In the globalized economy, labor migration has become of central importance. A key issue in the analysis of immigration is how the migrants fare in the economy in which they migrate, and how they ass …

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This book reports new developments in applied econometrics. All papers originated in two international workshops that were organized in the University of Munich on July 6-7, 1989, and on January 11 – …

During the last decades the appearance of a family has changed substantially. Not long ago a typical family consisted of an employed man and a home-managing woman living together for their whole life …

Deutschland befindet sich in einem harten internationalen Wettbewerb um qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte. Dabei steht der aktuelle Fachkräftemangel nur scheinbar im Gegensatz zu einer anhaltend hohen Arbe …

A historically unique experiment is about to enter its second decade – German unification. Early hopes for a rapid and smooth economic transformation soon turned out to be overly optimistic. Despite …

This book consists of four parts: I. Labour demand andsupply, II. Productivity slowdown and innovative activity, III. Disequilibrium and business cycle analysis, and IV. Time series analysis of outpu …

Klaus F. Zimmermann Migration has become a topic of substantial interest in Europe in recent years. Part of this interest is driven by the important political changes in East Europe and the potential …

Das ‘Arbeitsbuch Makroökonomie’ bietet Studenten der Wirtschaftswissenschaften eine Fülle von Übungsaufgaben mit Musterlösungen, die den relevanten Lehrstoff von Einführungsveranstaltungen in diesem …

Auf der Welt leben gegenwärtig mehr als 5 Milliarden Menschen, davon ungefähr 3, 8 Milliarden in den Entwicklungsländern. Besonders in den Ländern der Dritten Welt ist die Bevölkerung nach dem 2. Wel …

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In recent years, population economics has become increasingly popular in both economic and policy analysis. For the inquiry into the long term development of an economy, the interaction between demog …

New theories of international trade suggest that pro-tectionism can make sense. This finding depends on the in-troduction of market power and increasing returns to scaleinto the international trade t …

Das Buch befaßt sich mit neueren Entwicklungen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften und gibt einen Überblick über die in den letzten Jahren erzielten Forschungsergebnisse und neue zentrale Forschungsthem …

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This highly accessible book illustrates how policy makers can address and nurture the effects of growing ethnic diversity in European labor markets. The contributors present an unprecedented large-sc …

‘As immigration has spread from traditional receiving nations to developed countries throughout the world, the economics of migration has become a burgeoning field of research. Amelie Constant and Kl …

IZA World of Labor distils and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers make better informed policy decisions. Written by well-known labor economist …

IZA World of Labor distils and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers make better informed policy decisions. Written by well-known labor economist …