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German Public Opinion on Admitting Refugees

Integrating Refugees: Insights from the Past

Many Refugees Have Work Experience but Smaller Share Possess Formal Vocational Qualifications

Language Acquisition: Refugees Nearly Achieve Proficiency Level of Other Migrants

Refugees Entered the Labor Market Later than Other Migrants

Half of the Refugees in Germany Found Their First Job through Social Contacts

In Germany, the majority of people tend to find work through friends, acquaintances, and relatives when they first enter the labor market or switch jobs. The same applies to immigrants and their offspring. Integrating refugees into the labor market is considered crucial to their overall integration into society, yet little is known about how they land their first jobs. The present paper attempts to ...

Forced Migration, Arrival in Germany, and First Steps toward Integration

A new representative survey of a total of 4,500 recently arrived refugees to Germany conducted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ), and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) has generated an entirely new database for analyzing forced migration and the ...

IT and Communication Technologies Dominate Adolescent Downtime

Kantar Public's Organization of SOEP Fieldwork

An Overview of the SOEP Samples: Fieldwork Report 2016 from Kantar Public