This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home …. Controlling for family background, I find that the children of immigrants in Germany perform better than peers in every origin …

This paper draws on the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) to investigate whether changes in others? income are … perceived differently in post-transition and capitalist societies. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany … coefficients on neighbourhood income in East Germany are positive, but not statistically significant. This suggests not only that …

In this paper, we evaluate income distributions in four European countries (Austria, Italy, Spain and Hungary) using …