Cross-country migration in Europe can have multiple advantages. Among others, it can function as a buffer against economic downturns that come along with inferior employment and education opportunities, especially for young adults. However, cross-country mobility of young adults in Europe remains low, as language barriers, the loss of social ties or cultural differences create obstacles for migration. Against this background, Germany has launched a mobility assistance programme that supports young adults from EU member states who wish to enter the dual education system in Germany. To assess the causal impact of this programme, we compare migration flows to Germany from participating and non-participating countries in a difference-in-differences framework. Our results reveal a substantial programme effect that is larger for countries with above-average youth unemployment rates. These results add to previous migration research and reveal that migration flows are indeed sensitive to policy initiatives aimed at increasing migration.

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我们能让他们动起来吗？流动援助对欧洲年轻人跨国迁移的影响

欧洲的跨国移民可以有多重优势。除其他外，它可以起到缓冲经济衰退的作用，这些衰退伴随着就业和教育机会的减少，尤其是对年轻人而言。然而，欧洲年轻人的跨国流动性仍然很低，因为语言障碍、社会联系的丧失或文化差异给移民造成了障碍。在此背景下，德国启动了一项行动援助计划，支持来自欧盟成员国的希望进入德国双元教育体系的年轻人。为了评估该计划的因果影响，我们在差异差异框架中比较了从参与国和非参与国流向德国的移民。我们的结果显示，对于青年失业率高于平均水平的国家而言，该计划的影响更大。这些结果补充了以前的移民研究，并表明移民流动确实对旨在增加移民的政策举措很敏感。