Im Jahre 1988 betrug die Zahl der Zuwanderer nach Deutschland erstmals seit langem fast 1 Million Personen. Insbesondere durch die Öffnung der Grenzen zu Osteuropa stieg diese Zahl bis zum Jahre 1992 auf fast 1,4 Millionen an; seither ist sie wieder rückläufig (vgl. Schulz 1994; Münz und Ulrich...

The European social-welfare model differs from the North American individualistic model in the patterns, more than the overall extent, of ethnic inclusion and exclusion. Focussing on foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada as illustrative cases, conventional earnings decomposition...

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are entitled...