This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

Migration ist eines der am heftigste diskutierten Themen im Rahmen der Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union. In den Medien und auch einigen wissenschaftlichen Publikationen finden sich eine Vielzahl von Prognosen hinsichtlich der Dimension der zu erwartenden Zuwanderungsströme, denen die...

This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Microzensus with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants...