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...

This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...

This paper develops a new approach for a political support system related to the integration of immigrants using e-governance. Through the Internet the participation of immigrants is possible in both societies, the original and the new one, and at the three different levels: local, regional and...

Educational integration of children with migration background is an important issue in the social sciences. Few studies exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify institutional conditions of the education system that...

Immigrants consist of foreigners and citizens with migration background. We analyze the wage gap between natives and these two groups in Germany. The estimates show a substantial gap for both groups with respect to natives. Discarding immigrants who completed education abroad reduces much of the...

According to our research, some 12% of young people in Germany between the ages of 17 and 19 are disconnected, i.e. not in school, unemployed, and not living with a partner. The percentage of disconnected youths has been on the rise since 2002. There is evidence that an adverse family...

Unlike prototype immigration countries, Germany has attracted a large number of southern Europeans as temporary guestworkers in the 60s and 70s. Nevertheless, many of them have stayed on and intend to remain in Germany. I investigate whether these workers have become successfully integrated into...

Ein zentrales Thema in der aktuellen politischen Debatte in Deutschland ist die Integration der ausländischen Bevölkerung. Welche Rolle spielt dabei die Einbürgerung und wie sehen die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen hierfür aus? Wie entwickelte sich die Zahl der eingebürgerten Personen? Woher...

Im vorliegenden Papier werden die seit 1989 gegenüber Polen neu ausgestalteten bundesdeutschen Migrationspolitiken systematisiert. Folgende potentiellen Migrationswege im Spektrum zwischen Niederlassung, neuer 'Gastarbeit' und Prekarisierung werden aufgeschlüsselt: Zu- oder Pendelwanderung von...