Dr. Judith Möllers is an agricultural economist and has been a senior scientist at IAMO since 2006. She is the deputy head of Department Agricultural Policy. Her areas of expertise and professional interest include migration and return migration, financial and social remittances, migration impacts in the origin areas, migration and development links, rural depopulation, rural poverty and rural livelihoods. The geographical focus of her research is mainly on Southeast Europe.

Roles

  • Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies

    Research Institute, Halle (Saale), Germany
    Senior Researcher, Deputy Head of Department

Research

“Why villagers stay put – A structural equation model on staying intentions”

Authors Thomas Dufhues, Judith Möllers, Diana Traikova, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Rural Studies
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1 Journal Article

Measuring Dynamic Effects of Remittances on Poverty and Inequality with Evidence from Kosovo

Authors Arjola Arapi-Gjini, Judith Möllers, Thomas Herzfeld
Year 2020
Journal Name Eastern European Economics
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2 Journal Article

Return to the countryside: The return intentions of highly educated young people in the Akmola province of northern Kazakhstan

Authors Gertrud Buchenrieder, Thomas Dufhues, Judith Möllers, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
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3 Journal Article

Go west? Emigration intentions of young Bulgarian agricultural specialists

Authors Diana Traikova, Judith Möllers, Martin Petrick
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Rural Studies
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4 Journal Article

Remittance inflow and smallholder farming practices. The case of Moldova

Authors Simone Piras, Matteo Vittuari, Judith Möllers, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name Land Use Policy
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5 Journal Article

Exit or Voice? The Recent Drivers of Kosovar Out‐migration

Authors Judith Moellers, Arjola Arapi-Gjini, Thomas Herzfeld, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Migration
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6 Journal Article

Cognitive Constructs and the Intention to Remit

Authors Judith Möllers, Wiebke Meyer, Sherif Xhema, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name The Journal of Development Studies
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7 Journal Article

Suggested Research

The nature and effects of remittance scripts in rural Kosovo

Authors Judith Möllers, Arjola Arapi-Gjini
Year 2024
Journal Name Migration Studies
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1 Journal Article

Remitted euros are not equal: The complex spending behaviour of Kosovar households

Authors Arjola Arapi-Gjini, Arjola Arapi‐Gjini, Judith Möllers, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name International Migration
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2 Journal Article
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