We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of the German welfare system. We find that welfare transitions changed after the reform: transitions from welfare ...
Despite of integration efforts, the labor market success of migrants in Germany still lags behind that of the autochthonous German population. Using the IAB-SOEP-Migration Sample 2013, differences between first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany regarding labor market success were investigated. For the analysis, the sample was subdivided into groups based on the country of origin. Labor market ...
