the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006 in order to investigate the economic performance of immigrants. We … perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as … reflected by their earnings. Further we take the heterogeneity of immigrants into account by separating them by country of …

employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage … inequality between skill groups for Germans relative to immigrants. The returns to skill for the highest educational attainment … are higher for Germans across the wage distribution compared to immigrants. But within-group inequality for the group with …

This paper investigates how immigrants' Body Mass Index (BMI) changes with increasing years since migration in Germany …

This paper analyses immigrants' access to health care and utilisation of health care services in Germany. Thereby, it … secondgeneration immigrants. The data used are drawn from eleven waves of the SOEP (1995-2006). With regard to the probability to … immigrants. The hypothesis of inequity in access to health care due to access barriers caused by a lack of German language skills …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated … areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same country of origin as the surveyed person and segregated areas where … most neighbors are immigrants from other countries of origin. The results suggest that housing discrimination rather than …

In this paper, we analyze how the formal recognition of immigrants' foreign occupational qualifications afects their … information to their administrative records, allowing us to observe immigrants at monthly intervals before, during and after their …. After three years, the full recognition of immigrants' foreign qualifications increases their employment rates by 24 …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …

employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage … inequality between skill groups for Germans relative to immigrants. The returns to skill for the highest educational attainment … are higher for Germans across the wage distribution compared to immigrants. But within-group inequality for the group with …