This paper assesses the intergenerational effect of immigrant parents' incorporation experiences, measured as time in Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population registry data for 22 cohorts. Employing family fixed-effects, we examine final course...

Die Bildungs- und Erwerbsverläufe von Migrantenkindern in Frankreich und Deutschland sind äußerst vielfältig. In der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung dominieren die wenig Erfolgreichen. Dabei sind erfolgreiche Biographien junger Erwachsener mit Migrationshintergrund aber keineswegs eine zu...

The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young adults with a migration background are in no way a negligible exception. However, the picture is...

To provide policy implication for improving household welfare, one should understand which characteristics of households in a specific location they live, enable them to raise their welfare levels. This paper uses micro-econometric models for investigating the determinants of household welfare...

Refugee entrepreneurs can make a significant contribution to sustainable growth and development in host countries. However, comprehensive comparative studies of refugee entrepreneurial motivations are scarce, particularly in the absence of a theoretical framework on entrepreneurship motivation...

Während Populismus in Europa weiterhin weitverbreitet ist, sieht sich der Kontinent mit einer neuen Flüchtlingsdynamik konfrontiert. Nach der Krise von 2015/2016 ist die EU nun damit beschäftigt, die Herausforderungen der ukrainischen Zuwanderung besser und effizienter zu bewältigen....

This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia. A rich registry dataset on yearly earnings and different background characteristics for the period of 2007-2017 is used. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent...

This paper comparatively analyzes strategies of German Jobcenters to bring native and immigrant job seekers into employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS) from year 2015...

The majority of refugee women who arrived in Germany during the peak of the refugee crisis between 2013 and 2019 are unemployed. Using data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, this study investigates the contributing factors for refugee women's limited labor market participation. Results...

Die Mehrheit der geflüchteten Frauen, die zwischen 2013 und 2019 und damit auch zum Höhepunkt der Fluchtmigration 2015 nach Deutschland kamen, ist nicht erwerbstätig. Auf Grundlage von Daten aus der IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Geflüchteten-Befragung sucht diese Studie nach Erklärungen für die begrenzte...