A snapshot at figures of immigration (Aliyah) to the Land of Israel (Palestine) and to the State of Israel reveals the following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24,000 who lived there. During the first three years of...

This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more...

Previous studies of immigrant populations suggest that ceteris paribus (after controlling for the number of years in the receiving country and other socio-demographic variables), the level of income is strongly and positively correlated with fluency in the local language. Based on a phone survey...

SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have taken a...

European countries are becoming increasingly politically integrated and the process of integration has accelerated in recent years. But how much social integration is there within the Community? This article supplies a definition of European social integration, and thereby lays down the...

Die vorliegende Publikation widmet sich erstmals ausführlich Gefährdungslagen sozialer Ausgrenzung im Sinne der Europa-2020-Strategie. In der Europa-2020-Strategie für ein intelligentes, nachhaltiges und integratives Wachstum wurde von den Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union im Jahr 2010...

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

Während die Staatsangehörigkeit bei Erwachsenen nur wenig über den Stand der Integration aussagt, ist sie bei Kindern ein guter Indikator für eine nur kurz zurückliegende Migrationsgeschichte. So erhalten seit der Reform des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts im Jahr 2000 alle in Deutschland zur...

Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat für ein "soziales Massen-Experiment der Telearbeit" gesorgt, wie eine OECDStudie es formulierte. Denn die Anteile der Erwerbstätigen, die von zuhause arbeiten, stiegen weltweit rapide an. Auch die Anteile der Menschen mit Behinderungen stiegen an, allerdings nicht so...

A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria,...