In this article, we analyze individual factors and situational conditions under which immigrants are more or less likely to invest in host country-specific human capital. Theoretically, we root our expectations in a strand of the immigrant human capital investment model combined with a basic...

In the last years, the labor market integration of immigrant women has received much attention in the migration literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany during a similar period from a dynamic perspective. We...

Asylum seekers migrating to Germany remains a hotly debated topic. The second wave of a longitudinal survey of refugees shows that their integration has progressed significantly, even though some refugees came to Germany in poor health and with little formal education. Compared to the previous...

Im Zuge der Flüchtlingszuwanderung seit 2015 und damals weitgehend fehlender Kenntnisse über Qualifizierung, Bildungsstatus und den Verlauf von Integrationsprozessen bei den Geflüchteten hat das BMAS im Oktober 2015 das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) mit einem...

Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a...

This paper analyzes the role of health for refugees' integration into host societies' labor markets. We exploit the quasi-random dispersal policies of refugees across regions in Germany to analyze the causal effect of health on employment. Based on regional and temporal heterogeneity in a policy...

This study describes the first wave of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany, a unique panel dataset based on over 11,000 interviews conducted between August and October 2022. The aim of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey is to provide a data-infrastructure for...

"Zum Jahresende 2022 lebten in Deutschland (die seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs geflohenen ukrainischen Staatsangehörigen nicht mitgezählt) knapp 2,2 Millionen Menschen, die als Schutzsuchende gekommen sind. Die große Mehrheit hat anerkannte Schutzansprüche und beabsichtigt, in...

"Mit mehr als einer Million Personen ist Deutschland nach Polen das wichtigste Zielland für ukrainische Geflüchtete seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine. Die erfolgreiche Integration dieser Menschen in den Arbeitsmarkt und ihre Teilhabe auch in anderen Bereichen der...