On May 27-28, 2016, the Joint Annual Meeting of the Slovak Economic Association and the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG-SEA 2016) in cooperation with the University of Economics Bratislava took place. The theme of the conference was “Economic Policy in a Dynamic Environment”. The two keynote speakers were Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Bonn University) and Klaus F. Zimmermann (Harvard University, POP at UNU-MERIT & Global Labor Organization, GLO). The full Program can be found here.
Zimmermann spoke about:
The European Migration Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities
Relevant literature with free downloads. See also:
The Immigration and prices: quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey by Binnur Balkan and Semih Tumen, Journal of Population Economics (2016) 29(3): 657-686.
On creating a point system in a new immigration law for Germany, see:
Holger Hinte, Ulf Rinne and Klaus F. Zimmermann: Punkte machen?! Warum Deutschland ein aktives Auswahlsystem für ausländische Fachkräfte braucht und wie ein solches System aussehen kann, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2016, 17(1): 68-87. Pre-publication version.
Klaus F. Zimmermann on May 28, 2016, in the University of Economics in Bratislava:
During his speech:
