There is as yet little scientific knowledge about the migration biographies, routes, and experiences of immigrants living in Germany. But a longitudinal study started in 2013 is to close this gap. Each year, 5,000 people with a migration background and their family members are surveyed for the...

Die Entwicklungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt in den letzten Jahrzehnten und die jüngsten Rentenreformen werden sich erheblich auf die Rentenansprüche künftiger Rentnergenerationen auswirken. Dies zeigt eine aktuelle Studie des DIW Berlin im Auftrag der Deutschen Rentenversicherung. Während die...

We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...

Little is currently known about the employment histories and earnings of migrants prior to migration to Germany. Not only does the new IAB-SOEP Migration Sample close this gap but it also provides comprehensive information about the determinants of labor market integration of immigrants in...

In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income differential, employment rates, and migrations stocks as...

Migration poses many challenges for those involved. This not only includes labor market integration or the acquisition of language skills, they must also establish new social contacts in a foreign living environment. The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample allows us to study this social integration by...

Language skills and education are key factors for migrants being able to participate in all areas of economic and social life. Initial findings from the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample are starting to show whether immigrants are successful in transferring the human capital they have acquired abroad to...

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IAB-employment sample, we find however...

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...

Im Jahr 2006 haben etwa 155 000 Deutsche ihr Land verlassen - mehr als je zuvor, sieht man einmal von der Auswanderungswelle der Nachkriegszeit in den 50er Jahren ab. Allerdings kehren auch viele Deutsche in ihre Heimat zurück. Obwohl die Frage nach den Ursachen für diesen Anstieg mittlerweile...