regions, i.e. East, North, South and West. The focus is on characteristics of regions and migrants, selection of migrants into … regions and effects of migration for regions and migrants. The empirical results reveal significant differences between the … regions and between migrants and stayers. Differences between East and the western regions are outstanding, but differences …

, then, reflect both regional pay and employment differentials. In such a context, migrants tend to move to regions that best … its in-migrants. A higher employment inequality in Eastern as compared to Western Germany may, thus, be the missing link … to explain the fact that East-West migrants tend to be rather unskilled. …

micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000 - 2006 and merge this information with a …

-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Die Arbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Kapiteln, die Erkenntnisse zur Integration von Migranten und den Auswirkungen …