research

International trade

Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the U.S.-China trade war (with Gaia Narciso, Duc Anh Dang and Hien Phan), JKU Working Paper No. 2304, April 2023.
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Internationalization strategies of multi-product firms: The role of technology (with Daniel Baumgarten und Michael Irlacher), Canadian Journal of Economics, 55(4), 1929-1965, 2022.
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Labor search

Adverse selection, learning, and competitive search, International Economic Review, 64(1), 129-153, 2023.
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International migration and labor

Immigration and wages: the role of endogenous worker assignment to firms, Economics Letters, 183, 2019.
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Unemployment of immigrants and natives over the business cycle: evidence from the Austrian labor market (with Nora Prean), CESifo Economic Studies, 62(1), 1-25, 2016 (editor's choice article).
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The selection of migrants and returnees in Romania (with William Ambrosini, Giovanni Peri and Dragos Radu), Economics of Transition, 23(4), 753-793, 2015.
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Skill-biased technological change, unemployment and brain drain (with Harald Fadinger), Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(2), 397-431, 2014.
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Brain drain and brain return: theory and application to Eastern-Western Europe (with Giovanni Peri), Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, 9(1), 2009.
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International migration and public finance

Policies on illegal immigration in a federation (with Steffen Minter and Tim Krieger), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42(1-2), 153-165, 2012.
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Immigration and voting on the size and the composition of public spending, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 69(2), 2013.
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Optimal deficit and debt in the presence of foreign aid, World Development, 38(1), 19-27, 2010.
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Immigration and income redistribution - a political economy analysis, Public Choice, 131(1), 101-116, 2007.
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The fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria - a generational accounting analysis, Empirica, 32, 181-216, 2005.
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Policy-related contributions and more:

Die ökonomischen Auswirkungen von internationaler Migration, in: H. Fassmann und J. Dahlvik (eds.), 'Migrations- und Integrationsforschung - multidisziplinäre Perspektiven', 2. Auflage, Vienna University Press, 2012.

Rezension: T. Boeri, H. Brücker, et al. (eds.): Brain drain and brain gain: the global competition to attract high-skilled migrants, Oxford University Press, LSE Review of Books, http://blogs.lse.ac.uk, 2012.

Rezension: A. Kemnitz: Immigration, unemployment and domestic welfare, Journal of Economics, 91(3), 297-299, 2007.

Immigration: Auswirkungen auf Arbeitsmarkt und öffentliche Finanzen, Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, 53(2), 2006.

Immigration und öffentliche Finanzen aus polit-ökonomischer Sicht, Wirtschafts- und sozialpolitische Zeitschrift des Instituts für Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften (WISO), 29/2, 2006.

Increasing labour supply through economic migration - comments and statements, Mutual Learning Programme of the European Employment Strategy, European Commission-DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, 2005.

Work, economic situation and impact of illegal immigration on the host society, in: International Organisation for Migration, 'Illegal immigration in Austria', Austrian contribution to the European Research Study Project II 'Illegally resident third country nationals in the EU member states: state approaches towards them and their profile and social situation', 2005.

On the fiscal impact of immigration, Peter Lang, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, Serie V, Economics and Management, Vol. 3109, Frankfurt am Main, 2005.