Peters-Olbrich, Florian: Integration of Immigrants in Germany : Economic Relevance, Measurement, and Empirical Findings. 2019
Inhalt
- diss-titelblatt-peters-olbrich
- diss_Peters-Olbrich_buchblock_2019-10-04
- titelei_wwu-schriften_peters-olbrich
- diss_Peters-Olbrich-2019-10-04
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Economic Relevance of Integration
- 3.1 Relationship of Immigration, Diversity and Integration
- 3.2 Basic Economic Effects of Immigration
- 3.3 Economic Effects of Diversity and the Necessity of Integration
- 3.3.1 Why is Integration Important?
- 3.3.2 Positive Effects of Diversity in an Integrated Society
- 3.3.3 Negative Effects of Diversity without Integration
- 3.4 Fiscal Effects of Immigration and Integration
- 4 Migration History of Germany
- 18th and 19th century
- The early 20th century and World War I
- Nazi-Reign and World War II
- Post-War Era
- Post-Cold War Era
- Recent Developments
- 5 Empirical Literature about Integration
- 5.1 Measuring Integration with International Data
- 5.2 Measuring Assimilation with German Data
- 5.3 Contributions and Limits of this Integration Measurement for Germany
- 6 Technical Remarks and Implementation of the Model
- 6.1 Description of Data and Variables
- 6.1.1 Survey of the German Microcensus
- 6.1.2 Immigrants within the German Microcensus
- 6.1.3 Important Regions of Origin and their Differentiation in the Microcensus
- 6.1.4 Selection of Material Explanatory Variables
- Labour Force Participation
- Earned Income
- Ranking of Occupation
- Self-Employment
- Dependence on Social Assistance
- Home Ownership
- Square meters of living space
- Living in a big city with more than 500.000 inhabitants
- Civic Engagement
- Married to a Migrant
- Number of children in the same household
- Marital Status
- Highest Educational or Professional Degree
- 6.2 Model Description
- 6.2.1 The Probit Model to Predict Immigrant Status
- 6.2.2 Immigrants as “Rare Events” in the Data
- 6.2.3 Three Different Model Specifications
- 6.3 Additional Methodical remarks
- 7 Integration Index Results and Interpretation
- 7.1 What determines Integration Success? Five Hypotheses
- The Cultural Distance Hypothesis (H1)
- The Group Size Hypothesis (H2)
- Self-Selection Hypothesis (H3)
- The Time Horizon Hypothesis (H4)
- The Triangle Hypothesis (H5)
- 7.2 Cross-Sectional Results in 2010
- 7.2.1 State of Integration for 2010
- 7.2.2 Interpretation of Marginal Effects
- 7.2.3 The Duality of Economic and Socio-cultural Integration
- 7.3 Repeated Cross-Sectional Analysis
- 7.3.1 Development of Integration from 2007 to 2012
- 7.3.2 Development of Integration from 1996 to 2012
- 7.3.3 Marginal Effects at Different Points in Time
- 7.4 Comparing the First and Second Immigrant Generation
- 7.5 Interpretation and Discussion of Results
- “Guest Workers” (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain)
- Northern/Western Europe
- Central and South East/East Europe
- Turkey
- Africa without North Africa
- North Africa
- South America
- USA
- Near/Middle East, Central Asia
- (Late)-Repatriates and Ethnic Germans
- 7.6 Political Implications
- 8 Conclusion
- 9 Publication Bibliography
- 10 Attachments
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