Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...

In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; it also reacts more to changes in the situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gap between native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor-market situation component, I find that the unemployment...

Fast ein Fünftel der Bevölkerung Deutschlands hat einen Migrationshintergrund, bei den Unter-20-Jährigen sind es sogar knapp 30%. Einen großen Anteil machen die Zuwanderer der zweiten Generation aus. Insbesondere im Hinblick auf deren Bildungs- und Arbeitsmarkterfolg sind erhebliche...

We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but...