Even though second generation immigrants make up ever increasing population shares in industrialized countries we know little about their social integration and wellbeing. This study focuses on the educational attainment of German born children of immigrants. Their schooling success still lags...

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job security of children may delay emancipation. We then provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for...

Spiess umreisst grundlegende Erkenntnisse aus der allgemeinen, der Persönlichkeits- und der Sozialpsychologie und bezieht diese auf den Kontext des Konsumenten sowie den Prozess des Kaufens und Verkaufens. In Teil 2 werden dann neuere Aspekte der Konsumwelt und des Konsumentenverhaltens...

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that di sadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly difficult to assist effectively. As innovative measures are thus needed, we evaluate a German pilot...