“generation 1.5” (migrants arriving as children) and the second generation. It is stronger for women with low education and for … women who live with a partner from the same country of origin. -- Immigration ; fertility ; assimilation ; intergenerational … transmission ; Germany …

indicators of individual and parental human capital influence short-run integration outcomes in Germany, while work experience in … Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers have 22 percent more years of schooling - the indicator used … the home country does not. The paper discusses potential economic explanations for the findings on immigrant selection and …

combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta …

labor shortages. They are the largest immigrant group in Germany and can be reliably identified via ethnic name coding …This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of … immigrants from the "recruitment countries" of south and southeast Europe, who arrived in Germany mainly in the 1970s to fill …

migrants have not displaced native workers but have themselves struggled to find gainful employment. We find moderate increases …Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone … increased support for anti-immigrant parties, exposure to refugees at the micro-level had the opposite effect. …

unique survey data of migrants participating in an intensive language course in Germany, we find that the age and skill …

state ; immigration ; ethnic diversity ; Germany ; cluster-robust standard errors ; two-way clustering … with other variables such as income, self-employment, or East German origin. -- redistribution ; social security ; welfare …

effects are statistically significant, but rather small in size. -- reference standard ; social comparison ; immigration … ; Germany …

markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration … policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … recommended for immigration. …

a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for … the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity leave coverage. Effect heterogeneity is assessed by estimating ex … very strong negative employment effects after childbirth. Although the employment loss is reduced over the first five years …