This report compares employment expectations among refugees in Germany in 2016 with their actual employment situation in 2018, using the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany. In 2016, the majority of refugees reported that the probability they would find employment within two years was high. Employment expectations were met by 54 percent of all refugees; yet 35 percent of refugees who articulated ...
Germany has seen the arrival of a large number of displaced children and adolescents in recent years. Integration is vital for their lives today and in the future. Key indicators of successful integration are a sense of belonging to school, participation in extracurricular activities, both within school and outside it, and social contacts. The present report examines these indicators based on data ...
Five years ago, almost a million people came to Germany seeking refuge. Chancellor Angela Merkel responded to public concern over such a large influx of refugees with her well-known saying, “Wir schaffen das” (We can do this!). Much has happened since then. As this report shows, the German population’s concerns over immigration have been decreasing since 2016. Nevertheless, refugees are increasingly ...
Vier Studien auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) – Geflüchtete gehören meist zur besser gebildeten Hälfte ihrer Herkunftsgesellschaft – Eigene hohe Erwartungen an die Aufnahme einer Beschäftigung erfüllten sich teilweise – Schulische und außerschulische Integration geflüchteter Kinder und Jugendlicher vielfach erfolgreich – Sorgen ...
C. Katharina Spieß berichtet im Video von der DIW-Studie über das Leben von Geflüchteten. Die Studie berührt ganz unterschiedliche Bereiche: Bildung, Arbeit und soziale Netzwerke. Es geht um die Erfahrungen, aber auch die Einschätzungen von geflüchteten Kindern und Erwachsenen hinsichtlich Ihrer Möglichkeiten in Deutschland. Ein weiterer Teil der Studie widmet sich dem Zusammenleben von...
Following the fall of the Iron Curtain it was important for the acceptance of the new economic and political system that the former Communist elites did not maintain their privileges, and that protesters, who helped to overturn the old system, improved their situation. With newly available panel data on East Germany’s socialist past, the German Democratic Republic, we analyze how former Communist elites, ...
