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  • Diskussionspapiere 1692 / 2017

    Employment and Human Capital Investment Intentions among Recent Refugees in Germany

    Motivations to participate in the labour market as well as to invest in labour market skills are crucial for the successful integration of refugees. In this paper we use a unique dataset – the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, which is a representative longitudinal study of all refugees reported on administrative records in Germany – and analyse which determinants and characteristics are correlated with ...

    2017| Peter Haan, Martin Kroh, Kent Troutman
  • SOEPpapers 937 / 2017

    Employment and Human Capital Investment Intentions among Recent Refugees in Germany

    Motivations to participate in the labour market as well as to invest in labour market skills are crucial forthe successful integration of refugees. In this paper we use a unique dataset – the IAB-BAMF-SOEPRefugee Survey, which is a representative longitudinal study of all refugees reported on administrativerecords in Germany – and analyse which determinants and characteristics are correlated with highmotivation ...

    2017| Peter Haan, Martin Kroh, Kent Troutman
  • Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Aufsätze 2018

    Study Shows High Enrollment in Daycare and School among Refugee Children, but the Possible Need for More Daycare for Children under Three and More Language Support for School-Aged Children

    For refugee children, daycare or elementary school can play an important role in integration into German society. In the context of the arrival of more than 890,000 refugees in Germany in 2015 alone, this study focuses on daycare and school attendance among refugee children up to the age of 12. It is based on data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, a representative study of more than 4,500 ...

    2018| Ludovica Gambaro, Elisabeth Liebau, Frauke Peter, Felix Weinhardt
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Waiting for Kin: A Longitudinal Study of Family Reunification and Refugee Mental Health in Germany

    Involuntarily or planned – many refugees flee their home country alone, leave behind spouses and children but also siblings, parents and other family members they otherwise care for. Reunification in hosting communities is difficult, as governments limit institutional family reunifications and the individual journey of kin is dangerous and often illegal. Having family abroad is mentally distressing ...

    In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47 (2021) 13, S. 2916–2937 | Lea-Maria Löbel, Jannes Jacobsen
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Using a Mobile App When Surveying Highly Mobile Populations: Panel Attrition, Consent, and Interviewer Effects in a Survey of Refugees

    Panel attrition poses major threats to the survey quality of panel studies. Many features have been introduced to keep panel attrition as low as possible. Based on a random sample of refugees, a highly mobile population, we investigate whether using a mobile phone application improves address quality and response behavior. Various features, including geo-tracking, collecting email addresses and adress ...

    In: Social Science Computer Review 39 (2021), 4, S. 721-743 | Jannes Jacobsen, Simon Kühne
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    An Investment in the Future: Institutional Aspects of Credential Recognition of Refugees in Germany

    Adding to the rich literature on the economic integration of refugees, this article extends the scope towards the role of institutions by focusing on the transfer of human capital by means of credential recognition. The 2012 Federal Act of Recognition in Germany is a new institution that provides the possibility to study the transfer of human capital in depth. I argue that analysing the decision for ...

    In: Journal of Refugee Studies 34 (2021), 3, S. 3000–3023 | Jannes Jacobsen
  • Other refereed essays

    Sampling in Times of High Immigration: The Survey Process of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees

    Over the course of 2013 to 2016, over one million asylum seekers arrived in Germany, around 890,000 of them in 2015 alone. The growing refugee population posed a major challenge for Germany’s policy makers, civic administrators, and society at large, in finding new approaches to registration procedures, housing, and social and economic integration. To design policies and programs that meet these needs, ...

    In: Survey Methods : Insights from the Field (2019), 29.03.2019, 9 S. | Simon Kühne, Jannes Jacobsen, Martin Kroh
  • Other refereed essays

    Die Integration Geflüchteter in der Vergangenheit: Spracherwerb und Arbeitsmarkteinbindung

    Aktuell besteht eine der zentralen politischen Aufgaben in der Integration von Geflüchteten in die Gesellschaft. Integration setzt sich aus Teilprozessen, wie dem Erlernen der deutschen Sprache oder der Arbeitsmarkteinbindung, zusammen. In diesem Bericht betrachten wir diese Teilprozesse für Geflüchtete, die vor allem zwischen 1990 und 2010, nach Deutschland einreisten.

    In: Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik 66 (2017), 1, S. 29-35 | Martin Kroh, Zerrin Salikutluk, Diana Schacht, Elisabeth Liebau, Johannes Giesecke
  • Weitere externe Aufsätze

    Language Barriers during the Fieldwork of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany

    The IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees is one of the first large-scale quantitative surveys in Germany focusing on refugees exclusively. It is able to provide valuable insights on the recent cohort of refugees who arrived in Germany as of the year 2013. However, due to the fact that most respondents of the target population are not proficient in German, the research partners who conducted the survey ...

    In: Dorothée Behr (Hrsg.) , Surveying the Migrant Population: Consideration of Linguistic and Cultural Issues
    S. 75-84
    GESIS-Schriftenreihe ; 19
    | Jannes Jacobsen
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