Department of Economics, Migration and Integration
Experience
Having done work for more than thirty years, the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration is renowned for its scientific competence, its institutional knowledge, and its experience in economic and political advice.
Tasks
The Department of Economics, Migration and Integration provides research, teaching, policy-relevant analysis, and advice, covering multiple aspects of economic developments in Eastern Europe and the non-European states of the Former Soviet Union. Furthermore, economic systems and their developments are studied and theoretical approaches aimed at explaining regional characteristics are developed. Regarding the economic relations between Eastern Europe and Western Europe, the Institute for Eastern European Studies has attached importance to the issue of migration and integration.
Partners
Research, teaching, and advice are closely linked to the professorship Jürgen Jerger (University of Regensburg), director of the Institute for Eastern European Studies and head of the Department of Economics. Moreover, there is close cooperation with project partners. Furthermore, the department publishes the international periodical "Economic Systems".
Results
Results are imparted via working papers, conferences, seminars, teaching, as well as national and international advice. In particular, the department advises the political sector by providing scientific opinions. As soon as the ordering party has agreed, scientific opinions are published. The Federal Government and the Bavarian State Government are the most imporant ordering parties. Transition countries are advised directly. This is done primarily by sending out associates. In this connection, a longtime emphasis has been placed on the Ukraine.
Focuses
- Contemporary monitoring and analysis of economic developments and economic policies in Eastern European countries.
- Economic and technological processes of convergence and divergence, labour markets and capital markets of new EU member states and acccession candidates.
- Problems of adjustment in new EU member states, as far as structural policy and regional policy are concerned.
- "European Neighbourhood Policy"
- East-West migration within and at the borders of the enlarged EU, integration of immigrants, especially in Germany.
- Interdependence between governance, social capital, and economic development, especially in Central Asia.
