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DIW Economic Bulletin 34/35 / 2016
Whether they’re looking to participate in social life, enter the German labor market, or obtain relevant training certificates, learning German is a critical part of integration for the majority of refugees—and yet only a handful of studies have examined their language acquisition patterns and skill levels. The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample, which was collected by the Institute for Employment Research ...
2016| Elisabeth Liebau, Diana Schacht
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DIW Economic Bulletin 34/35 / 2016
It has taken longer for refugees who have been living in Germany for some time, particularly those who arrived between 1990 and 2010, to take up gainful employment than other migrants. These findings are based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample. In addition, these refugees show a higher rate of unemployment and earn lower incomes by comparison even years ...
2016| Zerrin Salikutluk, Johannes Giesecke, Martin Kroh
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DIW Economic Bulletin 34/35 / 2016
In Germany, the majority of people tend to find work through friends, acquaintances, and relatives when they first enter the labor market or switch jobs. The same applies to immigrants and their offspring. Integrating refugees into the labor market is considered crucial to their overall integration into society, yet little is known about how they land their first jobs. The present paper attempts to ...
2016| Philipp Eisnecker, Diana Schacht
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The scope of immigrants' transnational ties and the relationship to their social position is subject to a controversial debate that suggests a dualistic picture. On the one hand, globalization theorists argue that an elite of highly educated and economically most successful professionals intensively engages in and benefits from transnationality. On the other hand, most scholars in migration and assimilation ...
In:
Ethnic and Racial Studies
38 (2015), 9, S. 1497-1519
| Margit Fauser, Elisabeth Liebau, Sven Voigtländer, Hidayet Tuncer, Thomas Faist, Oliver Razum
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Der Beitrag der Frage nach, wie sich die Remigrationsabsichten und das Remigrationsverhalten türkischstämmigerEinwanderer in Deutschland im Zeitverlauf verändert haben, und wertet dazu alle Erhebungswellen dessozio-çkonomischen Panels (SOEP) ereignisdatenanalytisch aus. Die Befunde zeigen, dass Remigrationsabsichten und-raten türkischstämmiger Einwanderer seit der Jahrtausendwende angestiegen sind, ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
44 (2015), 1, S. 22-41
| Claudia Diehl, Elisabeth Liebau
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SOEPpapers 637 / 2014
By applying event-history analysis to all available waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze how remigration intentions and actual remigration of Turkish migrants to Germany have evolved over time. The study draws from a broad set of theoretical approaches to remigration and it takes a different focus than previous studies by concentrating on long-term change in these rates. Our findings ...
2014| Claudia Diehl, Elisabeth Liebau
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Research Project
In cooperation with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) has carried out the largest expansion in the number of respondents with a migration background in its 30-year history. Between May and November 2013, around 2,700 households were surveyed, each containing at least one person who had either immigrated to Germany since 1994 or whose parents...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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DIW Discussion Papers 1265 / 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these trajectories to measure culture by cohort and cohort-age, and more accurately relative to the extant literature. ...
2013| Rebekka Christopoulou, Dean R. Lillard
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Based on brother correlations in permanent earnings for different groups of second generation immigrants, the findings in this paper indicate that cultural background is not a major determinant of the level of intergenerational economic mobility.
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Economics Letters
114 (2012), 3, S. 335-337
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study focuses on gender-specific determinants of remittances in Germany. The conceptual approach considers gender roles and naturalization to be crucial in the immigrant's decision to remit. For the empirical investigation, the authors use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study for the years 2001-6. The findings show, first, that individual income differences in the country of ...
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Feminist Economics
18 (2012), 2, S. 201-229
| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten