Migration

Over the past decades, global migration has been increasing, making it one of the key phenomena altering modern societies. Demographic changes underscore the necessity of immigration for high-income societies. Yet, immigrants often face considerable and persisting barriers to fair wages, social mobility, and access to resources.

Our research aims to answer questions about the consequences of migration for societies, but also the conditions under which labor market integration succeeds or fails. To understand the complexities of migration, we focus on large administrative data, combined with survey- or webscraped data as well as qualitative interviews.

Publications

Reichelt, M., & Müller, C. (2024). Terrorism and the employment of Middle Eastern men: a relational approach to event-based labor market effects. Working paper, https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/j3yat
Klaunig, K., Karim Khan, S., & Reichelt, M. 2024. ‘My life is not to be called a failure’: how family reputation in the origin affects return considerations among South Asian migrants in the Gulf. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-20.
Hermansen, A. S., Penner, A., Elvira, M., Godechot, O., Hällsten, M., Henriksen, L. F., … Vickstrom, E. (2023). Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs. Working Paper, https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/2p4vw
Brenzel, Hanna and Malte Reichelt. “Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap: A longitudinal analysis for the German labor market”. International Migration Review, 52(3), 724-749