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Emigration, Friends, and Social Integration: The Determinants and Development of Friendship Network Size After Arrival (Chapter 14)

Friendships can be interpreted as voluntary relationships between individuals and characterised as relatively amorphous bond. Since migration usually diversifies people’s social bonds, it can be suggested that in this context friendships have to be reconfigured. Even though friendships are important for societal integration and related to individual well-being, migration research has treated friendships ...

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Five Years Later, One Million Refugees Are Thriving in Germany

Emotions and Risk Attitudes

Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people’s emotions over time predicts changes in risk attitudes. Using a large panel data set, I identify happiness, anger, and fear as signi<U+FB01>cant correlates of within-person changes in risk attitudes. Robustness ...

The role of socioeconomic, cultural, and structural factors in daycare attendance among refugee children

Bisherige Studien haben gezeigt, dass ethnische Bildungsungleichheiten bereits vor der Einschulung entstehen. Es wurde gezeigt, dass insbesondere für Lernende mit Migrationshintergrund eine frühe Bildungsbeteiligung einen positiven Einfluss auf die späteren Bildungsergebnisse hat, wobei der Erwerb der Sprache des Aufnahmelandes einer der Hauptmechanismen für diesen Effekt ist. Mit der Zuwanderung von ...

Broken School Biographies of Adolescent Refugees in Germany (Kapitel 6)

The recent movement of refugees to Germany also included nearly 600,000 children and adolescents. The two-cohort panel study “ReGES – Refugees in the German Educational System”1 was launched to analyze the integration of these minors in the educational system. This chapter introduces our study, its design, and the sample. It then focuses on the adolescent cohort and provides a first description of ...

Establishing a Survey of Refugees in Germany: Challenges in Sampling, Field Work and Measurement

Diese Dissertation betrachtet verschiedene Schritte einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Erhebung zur Integration Geflüchteter in Deutschland. Anhand von vier Zeitschriftenartikeln wird eine neuartige Strategie, um eine Zufallsstichprobe von Geflüchteten in Deutschland zu ziehen, besprochen, die Folgen fehlender muttersprachlicher Übersetzungen von Fragebögen analysiert, latente Konstrukte auf Vergleichbarkeit ...

Labour Market Participation of Refugees in Germany: Legal Context and Individual-level Factors (Kapitel 10)

Labour market access is a crucial aspect of integration. Among other things, it provides migrants with economic resources to participate in societal life in the host country. This chapter explores the factors of labour market access for refugees in Germany. First, we provide a brief overview of how labour market access is determined by legal status. Second, we explore individual aspects of labour market ...

The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

This article develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill acquisition, with important implications ...

Language, or Dialect, That Is the Question. How Attitudes Affect Language Statistics Using the Example of Low German

This paper explores how attitudes affect the seemingly objective process of counting speakers of varieties using the example of Low German, Germany’s sole regional language. The initial focus is on the basic taxonomy of classifying a variety as a language or a dialect. Three representative surveys then provide data for the analysis: the Germany Survey 2008, the Northern Germany Survey 2016, and the ...