E-Mail: herbert.bruecker(at)uni-bamberg.de

Pillar 3 ‘Changes in Human Capital, Labour Markets and Demographic Structures and their Impact on Social Inequality in Modern Societies’

Professor Dr. Herbert Brücker is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students in the areas of international migration, European integration and labour economics.

Professor Brücker's website at the Chair of Economics, esp. Integration of European Labour Markets

Dr. Herbert Brücker is Professor of Economics with Particular Reference to the Integration of European Labor Markets and simultaneously Head of the Department of International Comparisons and European Integration at the Institute of Employment Research (IAB Nuremberg). His research interests focus on international migration, labour economics and European integration. He has published, amongst others, in journals such as Economics Letters, Economics Policy, Journal of Comparative Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics and World Economy.

Articles and Book Chapters

Bertoli, S., Brücker, H., Facchini, G., Mayda, A. M. and Peri, G. (forthcoming). ‘The Upcoming Battle for Brains: Understanding High Skilled Immigration in Developed Countries.’ In: Boeri, T., Brücker, T. and Docquier, F. (eds.), Brain Drain and Brain Grain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brücker, H. and Jahn, E. J. (forthcoming). ‘Migration and wage-setting: reassessing the labor market effects of migration,’ Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Baas, T. and Brücker, H. (2010). ‘Macroeconomic impact of eastern enlargement on Germany and UK: evidence from a CGE model,’ Applied Economics Letters 17(2), pp. 125-128.

Brücker, H. and Defoort, C. (2009). ‘Inequality and the self-selection of international migrants: theory and new evidence,’ International Journal of Manpower 30(7), pp. 742-764.

Brücker, H. and Trübswetter, P. (2007). ‘Do the best go West? An analysis of the selfselection of employed East-West migrants in Germany,’ Empirica 34(4), pp. 371-395.

Brücker, H. and Schröder. P. J. H. (2007). ‘EU accession and the hardening of soft budget constraints: some macro evidence,’ Economic Change and Restructuring 40(3), pp. 235-252.

Brücker, H. and Siliverstovs, B. (2006). ‘On the estimation and forecasting of international migration: how relevant is heterogeneity across countries?’ Empirical Economics 31(3), pp. 735-754.

Brücker, H. and Siliverstovs, B. (2006). ‘Estimating and forecasting European migration: methods, problems and results,’ Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung 39(1), pp. 35-56.

Boeri, T. and Brücker, H. (2005). ‘Why are Europeans so tough on migrants?’ Economic Policy 20(44), pp. 629-703.

Brücker, H., Schröder, P. J. H. and Weise, C. (2005). ‘Can EU conditionality remedy soft budget constraints in transition countries?’ Journal of Comparative Economics 33(2), pp. 371-386.