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Research

Fact of the day

The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin) engages in research designed to raise the standard of public debate and create the best possible basis for policy making.

Equity, Inclusion & Opportunity
Equity, Inclusion & Opportunity
Migration & Global Collaboration
Migration & Global Collaboration
Technology, Trade & Human Capital
Technology, Trade & Human Capital

Discussion papers

No. 34/25 - July 2025

Immigration, Demand, Supply and Sectoral Heterogeneity in the UK Labor Market

Andrew Mountford, Jonathan Wadsworth

No. 33/25 - July 2025

Disconnecting Women: Gender Disparities in the Impact of Online Instruction

Xiaoyue Shan, Ulf Zölitz, Uschi Backes-Gellner

No. 32/25 - July 2025

Tourism and Growth in the Local Labor Market

Laura Conti, Marco Francesconi, Giulio Papini, Michel Serafinelli

No. 31/25 - July 2025

Talent Management: the Role of Bosses

Guido Friebel, Michael Raith

Handbook of Labor Economics – Chapter Previews

In anticipation of the upcoming Handbook of Labor Economics, we offer early access to select chapters through our Discussion Papers series. Following our 2023 conference on this new edition, first chapters are now available for preview, featuring insights from leading research in economics and labor.

News

RFBerlin research and researchers are regularly featured in the press.

CReAM at RFBerlin Podcast

17 Jul 2025

Migration Talks: Who Gets to Rise? Immigrant mobility through the lens of data, history, and policy.
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CReAM at RFBerlin

17 Jul 2025

CReAM Report: Employment of Migrants in the European Union
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CReAM at RFBerlin Press

15 Jul 2025 • Reuters, DER SPIEGEL, MSN, etc.

Research on Education Levels of EU Immigrants in the Media
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CReAM at RFBerlin Podcast

10 Jul 2025

Migration Talks: Who Stays, Who Returns? What Ukrainians and other refugees do after forced migration
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Upcoming events

RFBerlin hosts a wide array of events aimed at fostering academic research and collaboration.

Conference

17 September 2025

RFBerlin Conference on Worker Co-Determination and Governance

RFBerlin Hosted

15 July 2025

Workshop on the Political Economy of Identity

RFBerlin Applied Economics Seminar

1 July 2025

Lukas Althoff (Stanford University)

Race-Blind Policy and Racial Inequality: Long-Run Effects of the GI Bill

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