Barbara Dietz

• Dr.
• Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit

This study examines how large-scale, predominantly male emigration affects the education of girls staying in Tajikistan, the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most remittance-dependent economies in the world. Using data from a three-wave household panel survey conducted in 2007, 2009, and 2011, this study finds that the net effect of migrati...

This paper investigates the economic and social predictors affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan to Russia between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay longer in the destination during the crisis; at t...

This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay longer in the destination during the crisis; at the same...

Since the early fifties of the last century Germany admitted ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) and at a later point in time Jewish refugees (jüdische Kontingentflüchtlinge) from the Soviet Union and its successor states. While identity formation of ethnic German and Jewish immigrants is based on shared history and cultural characteristics, education and...

The enlargements of the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007 established a new frontier in Eastern Europe, turning a number of post-Soviet Union countries into neighbours of the EU. Encouraged by economic opportunities abroad and by the greater freedom of movement, labour migration from post-Soviet states increased, whether it was from those countr...

We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique three-wave household panel survey reveals that emigration of family members is negatively associated with children's school attendance. Receiving remittances does not...

In this paper we analyze economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region to region migration in 2008-2010. In line with traditional economic theory we find that migration is determined by economic factors, first of all income: People are more likely to leave regions where incomes are l...

Immigration to Germany has increased since 2009 and reached a preliminary high in 2013. Triggered by the comparably stable German economy and the abolition of transitional immigration restrictions, the majority of immigrants arrive from East European Union enlargement countries of 2004 and 2007. As a result of recent inflows, the immigrant populati...

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income...

This article investigates the determinants of temporary migration and the destination choices of migrants from a geopolitically important region in eastern Europe that borders Russia and the enlarged EU. We present empirical evidence from a novel survey simultaneously conducted in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, five countries that...

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income...

Internal migration flows in Kazakhstan are of high social and political relevance but political and public attention has primarily been devoted to external movements. This paper presents the main descriptive results of a new household survey on migration and remittances in Kazakhstan which was conducted in four cities (Almaty, Astana, Karaganda and...

In this paper we analyze the determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region to region migration in 2008–2010. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study on interregional population flows in Central Asia. We find that migration is determined by economic factors, first of all income: People are mo...

My presentation was divided into five parts including theoretical approach and general overview of the research topic, impacts of the labor migration and remittances on the economy of Uzbekistan as well as possible policy recommendations aimed to improve economic impacts of the labor migration and remittances.

This paper investigates the impact of international migration on technical efficiency, resource allocation and income from agricultural production of family farming in Albania. The results suggest that migration is used by rural households as a pathway out of agriculture: migration is negatively associated with both labour and non-labour input allo...

In recent years labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe has increased, resulting in a comparatively stable and high inflow of remittances into these countries. This briefing explores how the economic crisis in 2008/2009 impacted on the development of migration and remittance flows into EU-10 and CIS countries. There is evidence for a reduc...

This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination choices and migration determinants differ between poorer and better-off countries. Although broadly in line with general results from the migration literatur...

Over the past twenty years, international migration issues become inescapably prominent in European public debate. Issues about the arrival of new immigrants and the problems of integration processes are rooted in the deep and vast changes that have characterized the recent history of European international migration. This volume addresses aspects...

In the paper we use a unique new data set which has been collected in late 2006 in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to investigate the determinants for short term migration and its destination and duration patterns. Special attention is paid to the role played by personal networks to Eastern and Western destinations as well as investm...

Im Rahmen des vom Bayerischen Wissenschaftsministerium geförderten Forschungsverbundes forost widmeten sich die Autoren zwei Jahre lang verschiedenen Aspekten von Vielfalt bzw. Diversität im Prozess der Europäisierung. Belegt wird, dass Diversität sowohl Chancen als auch Risiken für eine Gesellschaft in sich birgt. Das von Joachim Möller und Richar...

With the enlargement of the European Union, new bordering countries emerged in the East which are characterized by comparatively low incomes and living standards, incomplete democratization and a number of latent political conflicts. Against this background it can be expected that migrations from these countries into the European Union will be grow...

Die unabh�ngige Ukraine ist seit einigen Jahren zu einem Sendeland von Arbeitsmigranten geworden. Verantwortlich f�r die neuen, �berwiegend kurzfristigen und zirkul�ren Wanderungen sind die wirtschaftlichen Probleme im Land. Gest�tzt auf eine Haushaltsbefragung beleuchtet dieser Bericht, welche Migrationsmuster die aktuellen Arbeitsmigrationen kenn...

The immigration of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union played a significant role in the post-World War II immigration and integration experience of Germany. But in contrast to labor migrants, the inflow of ethnic Germans was not related to economic factors like recruitment programs or the business cycle. Because ethnic Ge...

Die Zuwanderung nach Deutschland und die Integration von Migranten in die deutsche Gesellschaft findet seit einigen Jahren hohe Aufmerksamkeit, und statistische Informationen über das Zuwanderungsgeschehen und über die in Deutschland lebenden Migranten werden angefordert. Denn um eine erfolgreiche Migrationspolitik zu entwickeln, sind empirisch ges...

The countries concerned in this paper are either in the process of negotiations for EU accession (Bulgaria and Romania) or under a review process for opening such negotiations (Turkey). Therefore we will take the EU-requirements concerning the labour market as a benchmark against which the developments in these countries are assessed.

Seit Beginn der neunziger Jahre kommt der Besch�ftigung von osteurop�ischen Saisonarbeitern insbesondere in der deutschen Landwirtschaft eine Schl�sselrolle zu. Obschon diese auf bilateralen Vertr�gen beruhende kurzfristige Arbeitsmigration mittlerweile Praxis ist, wurde ihre Bedeutung f�r Arbeitgeber und Betriebe, aber auch f�r die lokalen Arbeits...

Emigration from the Soviet Union was kept under strict control by the Soviet authorities until the late 1980s. Following the policy of perestroika and the subsequent break-up of the Soviet Union, emigration restrictions were relaxed. Because this relaxation, growing anti-Semitic sentiment and the economic, social and political disintegration of the...

Since the end of the 1980s a massive emigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union (FSU) can be observed. Israel and the United States were the most important receiving countries, followed by Germany, a comparatively new immigration destination for Jews from the successor states of the USSR. One of the reasons the German Government allowed the ad...

1 The first part of the article describes the legal basis of this migration, introducing the different entrance regulations to Germany - the admission laws for asylum seekers and ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) as well as particular regulations for foreign workers, which are based on bilateral agreements. The second part explores the quantity of migran...

Vor dem Hintergrund der erheblichen Wohlfahrtsunterschiede zwischen Ost und West und der politischen Transformation in Mittel- und Osteuropa (MOE) entwickelte sich seit dem Ende der achtziger Jahre eine neue Arbeitsmigration nach Deutschland. Die Arbeitswanderungen aus Mittel- und Osteuropa werden im Rahmen bilateraler Vertr�ge und strikter Zuwande...

With the break-up of the Soviet Union, emigration from its successor states has increased considerably since the beginning of the 1990s. The most important receiving country of this outmigration has been Germany, which admitted approximately 1.63 million ethnic Germans and 120,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union between 1990 and 1999. In this art...

This paper aims to address a gap in our understanding of immigrant health issues by examining the determinants of excess weight--an important indicator of current and future health. The paper combines data drawn from recent large health surveys to identify how the weight of recent immigrants compares with that of native-born people, and how the lik...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union there has been a significant immigration of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) from the former USSR to Germany. Between 1990 and 1999 more than 1,6 million ethnic Germans arrived. A very important part of this immigration are children and adolescents: one third being under the age of 20 at arrival, and approximately...

This book analyses the integration of young ethnic Germans who immigrated in the first half of the 1990ies from the successor states of the Soviet Union to Germany. Based on a representative survey, it examines the living conditions of these young people in their countries of origin and depicts their emigration experience. Specific elements of Russ...

Im Zusammenhang mit der Osterweiterung wurden in den EU-Mitgliedsstaaten, und hier vor allem in Deutschland, erhebliche Befürchtungen vor einer starken Zuwanderung von Arbeitsmigranten aus den osteuropäischen Staaten geäußert. Besonders mit Blick auf die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit wurde ein Druck auf die Löhne oder ein weiterer Verlust von Arbeitsplätze...

1. Migrationsforschung: ein interdisziplinärer Ansatz 1.1. Disziplinen und Forschungsfragen 1.2. Typologien, Ebenen der Analyse und Daten 2. Migrationserfahrungen in Osteuropa: Geschichte und Politik 2.1. Die osteuropäische Migrationsgeschichte bis 1915 2.2. Die osteuropäische Migrationsgeschichte zwischen 1915 und 1949 2.3. Migrationen in Osteurop...