Im Jahre 1988 betrug die Zahl der Zuwanderer nach Deutschland erstmals seit langem fast 1 Million Personen. Insbesondere durch die Öffnung der Grenzen zu Osteuropa stieg diese Zahl bis zum Jahre 1992 auf fast 1,4 Millionen an; seither ist sie wieder rückläufig (vgl. Schulz 1994; Münz und Ulrich...

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 concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are entitled...

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

A wildly discussed shortcoming of panel surveys is a potential bias arising from selective attrition. Based on data of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the authors analyze potential artifacts (level, structure, income inequality) by comparing results for two independently drawn...

Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and welfare is based on data from the U.S., the answer is...