Moving away? How people decide to migrate, and whether any policy can change it.
In this episode of Working Papers, host Tim Phillips sits down with Prof. Tommaso Frattini (Deputy Director of CReAM at RFBerlin) and Dr. Giacomo Battiston (Senior Research Officer at RFBerlin) to loo...
13 Aug 22min
Migration Talks: Forced or free to move? Insights from Finland and Mozambique on displacement, climate and the cost of starting over.
In this episode of Migration Talks, researchers Sandra Sequeira (London School of Economics) and Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich) take us into two very different contexts with surprising parallels. Fr...
24 Juli 202527min
Migration Talks: Who Gets to Rise? Immigrant mobility through the lens of data, history, and policy.
In this episode of Migration Talks, Professor Leah Boustan (Princeton University) explores what shapes upward mobility for immigrants and who actually gets to rise. Using research, historical records,...
17 Juli 202518min
Migration Talks: Who Stays, Who Returns? What Ukrainians and other refugees do after forced migration
In this episode, Panu Poutvaara (ifo Center for Migration and Development Economics) and Damla Buyuktaskin (UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency) discuss what happens after displacement: who returns, who stay...
10 Juli 202522min
Migration Talks: Securing borders to secure votes? Public perception and EU Migration Policy
In this episode, Christian Dustmann (UCL, RFBerlin) and Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan, RFBerlin) discuss the politics of EU border control. As headlines increasingly focus on “securing borders...
3 Juli 202524min
9. Handbook Talk with Suresh Naidu: How do unions affect wages and inequality?
In this podcast episode dedicated to the new edition of the Handbook of Labor Economics, Professor Suresh Naidu from Columbia University discusses the recent resurgence of union power, for example, in...
22 Aug 202413min
8. Handbook Talk with Stephen Machin: How does crime impact the economy and society?
In this podcast episode dedicated to the new edition of the Handbook of Labor Economics, Professor Stephen Machin from the London School of Economics discusses the recent advances in the Economics of ...
15 Aug 20249min
