Thema Migration

Wohnsitzauflage: An opportunity for integration? The Impact of Residential Obligation Policy on Refugee Women’s Labor Market Participation

*************POSTPONED*****************To promote integration, the German government enacted the Residential Obligation Act (Wohnsitzauflage) in 2016, which obliges refugees to maintain their residence in the states to which they have been assigned for a period of three years from the time they are granted asylum or temporary residence. Studies addressing this policy have found controversial...

Overcoming Barriers to Service Access: Refugees’ Professional Support Service Utilization and the Impact of Human and Social Capital

After arriving in a new country, refugees are typically dependent on professional support to re-establish their livelihood. However, it is well documented that refugees face barriers when seeking access to services aimed at facilitating their settlement. This study examines refugees’ support service needs, their actual utilization, and investigates the impact of social and human capital on service ...

Holding the Door Slightly Open: Germany’s Migrants’ Return Intentions and Realizations

Return migration intentions are complex and are not necessarily followed by future return migration. Our study compares successful return or repeated migration with self-declared return intentions. We take advantage of the latest German Socio-Economic Panel survey dropout studies and fieldwork to observe a wider return migration window than reported in the literature to answer the question of whether ...

Forced Migration and Social Cohesion: Evidence from the 2015/16 Mass Inflow in Germany

A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere arrived in Germany. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this inflow changed the public opinion ...

The Impact of Migration on Wages in Costa Rica

In recent years, Costa Rica has experienced greater international migration from neighboring countries due to political, economic, and social reasons, raising discussions on the impact of migration on wages of native Costa Rican workers. This article is the first that disentangles the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Ricans from the impact for settled immigrants by analyzing the effect ...

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Migration and Dynamics in Men’s and Women’s Domestic Work

International migration of couples is rising. Still, there is little evidence on men’sand women’s domestic work hours before and after migration. This is despite thefact that domestic work provides deep insights into family life and, for migrants, isdirectly linked to integration. Therefore, this study examines how immigrant menand women change their domestic work hours following migration, using datafrom ...

Warum Deutschland von der Zuwanderung profitiert

Die Integration der Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine ist eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Eine neue Studie des DIW Berlin zeigt: Deutschland hat aus vergangenen Fehlern gelernt. Über eine Million Ukrainer und Ukrainerinnen sind seit Beginn des Krieges nach Deutschland gekommen – für viele fast unbemerkt. Anders als 2015 und 2016 hat die Zuwanderung das Land nicht gespalten und konnte von Populistinnen und Populisten ...

Ukrainische Geflüchtete bringen gute Voraussetzungen für die Teilhabe in Deutschland mit

Befragung von mehr als 11.000 Ukrainerinnen und Ukrainern liefert erste deutschlandweit repräsentative Ergebnisse Seit dem 24. Februar 2022 sind allein nach Deutschland mehr als eine Million Menschen aus der Ukraine geflohen. Viele ukrainische Geflüchtete nehmen inzwischen aktiv am Leben in Deutschland teil: 17 Prozent sind in Deutschland bereits erwerbstätig, die Hälfte besucht einen Sprachkurs, ...

Workshop on the Integration of Refugee Families in Host Countries: Research Advances, Policy Improvements, and Data Challenges

This one-day workshop aims to bring together researchers working on various aspects of the integration of refugee families into host societies and discuss the most recent research developments in this field. It also aims to discuss empirical research, data collection, and policy challenges in view of the new waves of refugees expected to arrive to Europe in the near future. To this end, the...