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 ...
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. ...
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. In early summer 2013, more than 2,500 households were interviewed by specially trained interviewers from the survey institute TNS Infratest Sozialforschung. These...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
We investigate whether Germans immigrants to the US work in higher-status occupations than they would have had they remained in Germany. We account for potential bias from selective migration. The probability of migration is identified using life-cycle and cohort variation in economic conditions in the US. We also explore whether occupational choices vary for Germans who migrated as children or as ...
The relationship between people's transnational ties and practices and their social position is subject to a controversial debate that suggests a dualistic picture. While there seems to exist a group of highly educated people who benefit from transnational mobility and networks, for migrants the maintenance of transnational ties to their 'old homes' appears to lead to a social mobility trap, and thus ...
Bielefeld:
SFB 882,
2012,
30 S.
(SFB 882 Working Paper Series ; 11)
| Margit Fauser, Sven Voigtländer, Hidayet Tuncer, Elisabeth Liebau, Thomas Faist, Oliver Razum
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.
In:
Economics Letters
114 (2012), 3, S. 335-337
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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 ...
In:
Feminist Economics
18 (2012), 2, S. 201-229
| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
In:
Matthias Wingens, Michael Windzio, Helga de Valk, Can Aybek (Eds.) ,
A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer
S. 75-100
| Irena Kogan, Frank Kalter, Elisabeth Liebau, Yinon Cohen
In:
Matthias Wingens, Michael Windzio, Helga de Valk, Can Aybek (Eds.) ,
A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer
S. 143-164
| Ingrid Tucci