market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the … Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living in Germany. The first contribution of this paper is to quantify the low …

The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into …

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …

immigration and absorption experience of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in Germany … after they have moved to Germany. Whereas all studies on the economic effects of migrant networks found a positive impact on … the labor market performance of ethnic Germans, the outcome of network participation with respect to social absorption is …

Germans in the CIS to find empirical support for it. Since July 1990, ethnic German immigration from Eastern Europe and the … CIS is restricted by means of a protracted application mechanism. In our data on ethnic Germans in Russia and Kazakhstan …

This paper examines the relative wealth position and the portfolio choices of immigrants in Germany. The empirical …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … Socioeconomic Panel that allow us to identify and compare four distinct groups: West Germans, East Germans, guestworkers, and ethnic … Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the …