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VW Projekt: Migration and Remittances in Central Asia
Fusionierung von SOI und OEI zum Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung
Das Osteuropa-Institut ist am 1. Januar 2012 mit dem mit Südost-Institut Regensburg zum "Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung" (IOS) fusioniert. Dieses wird die Arbeiten der beiden Traditionsinstitute fortführen und zugleich in der Forschung durch die gemeinsame Behandlung der beiden Großregionen und durch verstärkte Kooperation zwischen den beiden am IOS hauptsächlich vertretenen Disziplinen (Geschichte und Ökonomie) neue Akzente setzen.
Die Webpräsenz unter http://www.ios-regensburg.de/ befindet sich noch im Aufbau. Bis zum Abschluss dieser Arbeiten empfiehlt sich weiterhin, die Adressen des Osteuropa-Instituts und des Südost-Instituts zu konsultieren.
Neue Öffnungszeiten der Bibliothek ab 1.1.2012
Montag bis Donnerstag 10.00 Uhr bis 17.00 Uhr
Freitag 10.00 Uhr bis 16.00 Uhr
Die Bibliothek ist vom 23.12.2011 bis 8.1.2012 geschlossen.
Announcement
From 27 to 29 of June 2012 the Fourth Joint IOS/APB Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe will take place. The topic is "Recent Challenges in Migration Research. Economic and broader Development Issues".
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Ankündigung
Vom 11. bis 13. Oktober 2012 findet am Center for Balkan and Black Sea Studie / Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul eine internationale Konferenz zum "The Balkan Wars 1912/13. Experience, Perception, Remembrance." mehr...
Visitors
December 2011
Former Regensburg student Benjamin Elsner at the OEI
On December 20, Benjamin Elsner (now at Trinity College, Dublin) visited the OEI Research Seminar. He presented a paper on "Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment."
Visitors
December 2011
Ira Gang at the OEI
In December, Professor Ira N. Gang from the Rutgers University was again at the OEI for a short visit after having participated in the institute's Visiting Fellow Program in March 2011.
Visitors
December 2011
Research Fellow Jarko Fidrmuc at the OEI
On December 13, OEI Research Fellow Jarko Fidrmuc of Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen visited the OEI Research Seminar. He presented a paper (joint with Elisabeth Beckmann and Helmut Stix, both at OeNB) on "Foreign currency loans and loan arrears of households in CEECs."
Presentations and Conferences
December 2011
Honorary doctorate awarded to Manuela Troschke
Acknowledging her strong support for the Karaganda Economic University the scientific council of the university awarded Manuela Troschke the honorary doctorate. The official ceremony took place in December in Kazakhstan.
Publikationen
Dezember 2011
OEI-Informationen 4/2011 erschienen
Kürzlich erschien die Ausgabe 4/2011 der OEI-Informationen. Sie informiert aktuell über Forschung, Veranstaltungen und Publikationen des Osteuropa-Instituts Regensburg. U.a. enthält sie eine Ankündigung der internationalen Konferenz zum Thema „The Balkan Wars 1912/13. Experience, Perception, Remembrance." und berichtet über vier neu erschienene OEI Working Papers. In einem Kommentar fragt Manuela Troschke aus dem Arbeitsbereich Wirtschaft, Migration und Integration „Verlieren wir die Ukraine?".
Visitors
December 2011
Cristiano Perugini at the OEI
On 6 December, Professor Cristiano Perugini (University of Perugia) visited the OEI to present his paper (together with David Aristei) on "Speed and Sequencing of Transition Reforms and Income Inequality: a Panel Data Analysis." The paper has been published in the working paper series of the OEI.
Publications
December 2011
Article by Katrin Boeckh
OEI-historian Katrin Boeckh published an article on the ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegowina with the title: "Rich in peoples: Bosnia-Herzegowina and its population." The text was released by: Ost-West-Perspektiven 12 (2011) no. 4.
Publications
November 2011
New Spotlight Ukraine
The new Spotlight Ukraine November 2011 is now available.
OEI internal
November 2011
Achim Schmillen completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Regensburg
On November 14, 2011 Achim Schmillen of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration completed his doctoral thesis "Essays on International Economics and Labor Markets" at the University of Regensburg's Faculty of Business, Economics and Management Information Systems. His thesis was supervised by Joachim Möller, former director of the Institute for East European Studies, and Richard Frensch, head of its Department of Economics, Migration and Integration.
Presentations - Conferences
November 2011
Miriam Frey and Achim Schmillen at Conference on European Economic Integration
Miriam Frey and Achim Schmillen (both of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration) took part in the "Conference on European Economic Integration 2011" as represantatives of the Institute for East European Studies. The conference was organized by the Austrian and Finnish central banks and its topic was „European Integration in a Global Economic Setting - CESEE, China and Russia". It was held on November 21 and 22, 2011 in Vienna.
Presentations - Conferences
November 2011
Katrin Boeckh in Berlin
On November 17, 2011 OEI-historian Katrin Boeckh presented her work "Space for values. Habsburg borders today in historical and economic perspective." at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. The lecture took place within the "Werkstattgespräche" on theoretical and empirical approaches to space, organized by a project on phantom borders in Eastern Europe.
Publications
November 2011
New OEI Working Paper by Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova and Achim Schmillen
Internal migration flows in Kazakhstan are of high social and political relevance but political and public attention has primarily been devoted to external movements. OEI Working Paper No. 304 by Barbara Dietz, Kseniia Gatskova and Achim Schmillen (all of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration) 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 Pavlodar) between October and December 2010. It summarizes the survey's methodology, gives an overview over the basic characteristics of respondents, illustrates migration experiences on the individual and the household level and compares migrants and non-migrants. Furthermore, the prevalence of remittances and attitudes towards migration are discussed.
Publications
November 2011
New OEI Working Paper by Achim Schmillen
OEI Working Paper No. 305 by Achim Schmillen of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration uses detailed, reliable and up-to-date linked employer-employee data that take account of both the demand and the supply side of the labour market to challenge the conventional wisdom of a universal exporter wage premium. It investigates whether for German establishments an exporter wage premium can be found irrespective of export destination and the distance between export origin and destination. As expected, it finds that exporters generally pay higher wages than non-exporters. But it also shows that only exporting to certain countries is associated with a wage premium. Moreover, such a premium exists only for establishments that ship goods over a relatively long distance.
Visitors
October 2011
Robert Stehrer at the OEI
On 25 October, Dr. Robert Stehrer (wiiw and University of Economics, Vienna) presented a paper on "Trade in value added and factors: A comprehensive approach." The paper is part of the larger wiiw WIOD-project on World Input-Output Database: Construction and Applications.
Presentations - Conferences
October 2011
Achim Schmillen at Workshop on "Perspectives on (Un-)Employment"
On October 13 and 14, 2011 Achim Schmillen of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration took part in the fourth interdisciplinary workshop on "Perspectives on (Un-)Employment". There he presented his paper "Long-Term Effects of Occupational Choice on Unemployment - First Evidence from German Registry Data". The workshop was organized by participants of the joint graduate programme of the Institute for Employment Research and the School of Business and Economics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and took place in Nuremberg.
Publications
October 2011
New Spotlight Ukraine
The new Spotlight Ukraine October 2011 is now available.
Publications
September 2011
New OEI Working Paper by Barbara Dietz and Alisher Aldashev
In Working Paper No. 301 entitled "Determinants of Internal Migration in Kazakhstan" the authors analyze interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region to region migration in 2008-2010. They find that migration is determined by economic factors, most importantly income. Furthermore, mobility is larger between more populated regions. Distance has a strong negative impact on migration, indicating high migration related costs which might among other reasons be related to poor infrastructure.
OEI internal
October 2011
New Researchers in the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration
In preparation of OEI and SOI's merging to form the Institute for East- and Southeast European Studies (IOS) by January 2012, the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration has already by now been able to recruit three more young researchers.
Zvezda Dermendzhieva, PhD, and Olga Popova, PhD, have both earned their doctorates at CERGE (Charles University, Prague), with which the OEI has an ongoing collaboration. Their research focusses on labour markets and migration, and happiness economics and political economy, respectively.
Ksenija Gatskova is writing her dissertation at the University of Constance and has so far been a member of the VW-Foundation sponsored OEI project on Migration and Remittances in Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
Publications
October 2011
OEI launches the new issue of OEI Policy Issues online
The Institute for East European Studies has released the new issue of OEI Policy Issues online - the non-technical, policy-oriented publication series. This issue discusses energy and energy efficiency in Russia.
Topics
October 2011
New in OEI Database
OEI Database contains systematic information on important indicators for Economic and Social Models of (Eastern) European countries. It now contains a new area Energy and Environment (key indicators for all countries beginning with 1995). New in OEI Database are tables to wages, minimum wages and educational attainment.
Visitors
October 2011
Research Fellow Evžen Kočenda at the OEI
On 29 September, OEI Research Fellow Evžen Kočenda of CERGE at the Charles University Prague presented a paper (joint with Jan Hanousek and Michal Mašika) on "Efficiency and Ownership of Czech Firms."
Presentations - Conferences
September 2011
Barbara Dietz in Brussels
On 26 September, 2011 Barbara Dietz of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration took part in the final conference of the ‚ENRI-East' project in Brussels. The project had been financed by the 7th framework program of the European Union. At the conference Barbara Dietz talked about "Integration patterns of ethnic German and Jewish immigrants from NIS countries in Germany."
Presentations - Conferences
September 2011
Miriam Frey and Achim Schmillen at the ETSG Conference in Copenhagen
From September 8 to September 10, 2011 Achim Schmillen and Miriam Frey of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration took part in the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group at the Copenhagen Business School. This conference is the world's largest annual conference on international trade. Achim Schmillen presented his paper "The exporter wage premium reconsidered: destinations, distances and linked employer-employee data" and Miriam Frey talked about "Effects of trade liberalization between the EU and Ukraine in a computable general equilibrium model" (joint work with Zoryana Olekseyuk-Viber).
Presentations - Conferences
September 2011
Achim Schmillen at the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik)
From September 4 to September 7, 2011 Achim Schmillen of the Department of Economics, Migration and Integration took part in the Annual Congress of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. At the conference he presented his paper "Long-Term Effects of Occupational Choice on Unemployment - First Evidence from German Registry Data".
OEI-Intern
September 2011
Funded by DFG
Funded by DFG on behalf of a proposal by the OEI, Dr. habil. Oleksii Kuraiev (from the M. S. Hruševs'kyj-Institute for Ukrainian Archeography und Science of Historical Sources, Kiev) will stay in Germany and in Regensburg from October until December, 2011. His aim is to do research on his topic of the Russian and Ukrainian Panslav movements from the perspective of German journalism and science in 1856 to 1888.
Publikationen
September 2011
OEI-Informationen 3/2011 erschienen
Kürzlich erschien die Ausgabe 3/2011 der OEI-Informationen. Sie informiert aktuell über Forschung, Veranstaltungen und Publikationen des Osteuropa-Instituts Regensburg. U.a. enthält sie einen Überblick über das Lehrangebot der OEI-Mitarbeiter im Wintersemester 2011/2012 und berichtet über die OEI Summer Academy 2011 zum Thema „Energy and Environment in Eastern Europe". In einem Kommentar beschäftigt sich Direktor Jürgen Jerger mit dem Thema „Der Euro: Heute am Abgrund, morgen einen Schritt weiter?".
Publications
September 2011
OEI Working Paper by Achim Schmillen and Joachim Möller forthcoming in Labour Economics
A revised version of OEI Working Paper No. 275 by Achim Schmillen (Department of Economics, Migration und Integration) and Joachim Möller titled "Distribution and Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment" is forthcoming in Labour Economics, the official journal of the European Association of Labour Economists. The study describes the long-term interpersonal distribution of unemployment in Germany and analyses determinants of high lifetime unemployment.