the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated … areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same country of origin as the surveyed person and segregated areas where … most neighbors are immigrants from other countries of origin. The results suggest that housing discrimination rather than …

declined. We observe a large relative increase in transitions from employment to welfare. Immigrants' responsiveness to the …We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform … dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of the German welfare system. We find that welfare transitions changed …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …

In this paper, we analyze how the formal recognition of immigrants' foreign occupational qualifications afects their … information to their administrative records, allowing us to observe immigrants at monthly intervals before, during and after their …. After three years, the full recognition of immigrants' foreign qualifications increases their employment rates by 24 …

the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006 in order to investigate the economic performance of immigrants. We … perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as … reflected by their earnings. Further we take the heterogeneity of immigrants into account by separating them by country of …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …