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...

Analyzing the under-consumption of benefits in the German means-tested Social Assistance program using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study we estimate a high non-take-up rate of more than 60 percent. We find distinct differences across population groups and significant impacts of...

Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) in Germany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did not claim SA in that year which is slightly...