Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using … Germany lead to better earnings prospects compared to degrees obtained abroad for persons with migration background …. Independently of gender and skill level, the estimates affirm higher earnings to educational attainment in Germany. …

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from … eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German …. About one half of the immigrants who entered Germany since 1984 are ethnic Germans. Thus, any analysis of the living …

- born Germans for the period 1995 to 1997. Immigrants are divided into households that arrived in Germany before and after …

comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from … social support than natives. Looking at the European countries, we distinguish between migrants within and from outside the … EU and find that within - EU migrants are similar to natives both in terms of their characteristics and social support …

on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate … suggest that the educational gap between natives and migrants is mainly due to the 'endowment effect' provided by the … socioeconomic background of parents and cultural capital at home. Some adverse 'integration effects' do exist for female migrants in …