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
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 ...
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical investigation, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings ...
2011| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical investigation, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings ...
2011| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
Much of the current German debate about the integration of immigrants overlooks the fact that Germany is not solely a country of immigration, but also - and to a substantial degree - a country of emigration. One of the largest groups of emigrants is made up of Germans themselves. The percentage of German natives in the total population of emigrants has risen substantially over the last few years. In ...
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
The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young adults with a migration background are in no way a negligible exception. However, the picture is different in the two countries: while in France more migrants' descendants manage to reach their (secondary?) ...
2011| Ingrid Tucci, Ariane Jossin, Carsten Keller, Olaf Groh-Samberg