This paper empirically investigates distributional and welfare effects of Germany's year 2000 income tax reform. The … brackets, whereby income inequality increases, slightly greater in East- than in West-Germany. Moreover, households increase …

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …

This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … Germany …

in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain …

2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts … permanent component which has driven the strong expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany …

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …