"The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving...

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic selfidentification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using...

Trotz des größten Wirtschaftseinbruchs in der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte hat die internationale Krise die Bürger kaum erreicht. Das wird sich mittelfristig bedrohlich ändern, wenn es nicht gelingt, rechtzeitig eine aufziehende Kreditklemme und eine bedrohlich wachsende Staatsverschuldung...