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Purpose: – Because of the increasing importance of immigration for Germany due to the ageing population and the lack of highly skilled in some industries, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the return‐migration of German immigrants. Design/methodology/approach: – The paper uses the German Socio‐economic Panel to conduct an event‐history analysis of return‐migration. Findings: – The analysis reveals ...
In:
International Journal of Social Economics
35 (2008), 11, 769-782
| Sebastian Gundel, Heiko Peters
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Scholars have recently stressed two important avenues for the study of cultural diversity and social capital: the role of political integration regimes as well as alternative indicators to generalised trust. This article addresses both. Focusing on Germany, it provides the first study of the relationship between cultural diversity and social capital in a country implementing an ‘assimilationist’ model ...
In:
Political Studies
62 (2014), 3, 596-617
| Birte Gundelach, Richard Traunmüller
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Wiesbaden:
Destatis,
2003,
(CHINTEX Working Paper #19)
| Roland Günther
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In:
Ulrich Rendtel, Manfred Ehling, et al. ,
Harmonisation of Panel Surveys and Data Quality (Chintex)
Wiesbaden: Statistisches Bundesamt
8-38
| Roland Günther
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Aggregate data shows an inverse relationship between female employment and income inequality. This paper investigates this relationship using micro-data for seventeen OECD countries. In all countries, female earnings exert an equalising force on the distribution of income in spite of large employment gaps between high and low educated women. There are marked similarities across countries; even in Nordic ...
Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2010,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 531)
| Susan Harkness
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In:
Janet C. Gornick, Markus Jäntti ,
Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
Stanford: Stanford University Press
207-233
| Susan Harkness
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In:
Empirica
17 (1990), 2, 115-129
| Robert A. Hart, Olaf Hübler
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In:
KYKLOS
44 (1991), 2, 221-231
| Robert A. Hart, Olaf Hübler
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According to sociological theories on educational choice, risk aversion is the main driving force for class-specific educational decisions. Families from upper social classes have to opt for the academically most demanding, long-lasting courses to avoid an intergenerational status loss. Families from lower social classes by contrast, tend instead to opt for shorter tracks to reduce the risk of failing ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 433)
| Vanessa Hartlaub, Thorsten Schneider
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Studies of second-generation migrant assimilation have thus far focused on intergenerational mobility. However, career-mobility processes can also contribute to ethnic assimilation over the course of migrants’ careers. This study analyzes second-generation Turkish men’s labor-market and income mobility over the course of their early careers relative to those of autochthonous Germans. The results indicate ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Soziologie
45 (2016), 4, 281-297
| Jörg Hartmann