Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Self-Employment and Paid-Employment among Migrants and Natives

Speaking Fluency, Writing Fluency and Earnings of Migrants

Return Migration - The European Experience

The social assimilation of immigrants

Differences in the labor market behavior between temporary and permanent migrant women

The Effects of Education, Parental Background and Ethnic Concentration on Language

Temporary Migration, Human Capital, and Language Fluency of Migrants

This paper investigates human capital investment of immigrants whose duration in the host country is limited, either by contract or by their own choice. The first part of the paper develops a model which distinguishes between temporary migrations where the return time is exogenous or optimally chosen. The analysis has a number of interesting implications for empirical work, some of which are explored ...

Children and return migration

Return Migration, Wage Differentials, and the Optimal Migration Duration

In simple static models, migration increases with the wage differential between host- and home-country. In a dynamic framework, and if migrations are temporary, the size of the migrant population in the host country depends also on the migration duration. This paper analyses optimal migration durations in a model which rationalises the decision of the migrant to return to his home country, despite ...

Parental background, secondary school track choice, and wages

The way parents take influence on the education of their children is a crucial aspect of intergenerational mobility. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in Germany an important decision about which educational track to follow is made at a relatively early stage: after primary school, at the age of ten. In this paper, we use micro data to analyse the association between parents’ education and profession, ...