Migration und Integration
Bei dem Thema Einwanderung nach Deutschland gilt es auch die Bedingungen einer gelingenden Integration von Zugewanderten in Gesellschaft, Bildung und Arbeit zu untersuchen. Die Arbeitsmarktforschung beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die Integration in das Bildungs- und Ausbildungssystem, der Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt sowie die Bedingungen der sozialen Teilhabe und kulturellen Integration verbessert werden können.
Aktuelle Studien zeigen zudem, dass Deutschland angesichts seiner demographischen Herausforderungen dringend auf Zuwanderung angewiesen ist. Inwiefern kann Zuwanderung der Schrumpfung und Alterung des Erwerbspersonenpotenzials entgegenwirken? Welche Entwicklungen in der nationalen und europäischen Einwanderungspolitik begünstigen die Einwanderung von Erwerbspersonen und Fachkräften? Die hier zusammengestellte Literatur bietet einen aktuellen und umfassenden Überblick über den Themenkomplex Migration und Integration.
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- Einwanderungspolitik
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- Wanderungsmotivation und Rückwanderung
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- Integration und soziale Teilhabe
- internationale Aspekte
- Personengruppen
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“Maybe I Say Something, I Understand a Bit”: On the (In)Accessibility of Translation (2026)
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Bella, Natalie (2026): “Maybe I Say Something, I Understand a Bit”: On the (In)Accessibility of Translation. In: Social Inclusion, Jg. 14, S. 1-19., 2025-11-10. DOI:10.17645/si.10962
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"Working with interpreters is common in qualitative social research. It can even be necessary when researchers address the perspective of people with whom they do not share a lingua franca. Interpreters are then brought into the research endeavor to enable a communication setting that would otherwise be impossible. Following the theme of enabling communication, the dominant perspective on interpreted interviews suggests that there is only one person involved in the interaction - the Interpreter - who can understand and speak both languages. This perspective falls short as it relies on a monolithic understanding of refugees as perpetually removed from (the linguistic requirements of) their new surroundings. However, when people have visited language courses or have otherwise been exposed to the language of their new contexts, they are gaining ground as agents of translation. Thus, the interactional dynamic of the interpreted interview changes drastically as the interviewee can participate more in how they and their stories are interpreted. Faced with the varying language proficiencies of the interviewees, the interpreter adapts their strategies of interpreting. Drawing from narrative interviews with refugees from Syria, collected at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), this article explores the question of how the interviewees’ language proficiency influences the interpreted interview, as it is rooted in situated performativity. Focusing on the interactions between all three participants, three empirical constellations highlight the relevance of acknowledging the performative density of translating and interpreting collaboratively." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Cogitatio Press) ((en))
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OECD-Migrationsausblick 2025: Sag mir, wo du arbeitest, und ich sage dir, wie integriert du bist (2026)
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Bellmann, Lutz & Yuliya Kosyakova (2026): OECD-Migrationsausblick 2025: Sag mir, wo du arbeitest, und ich sage dir, wie integriert du bist. In: IAB-Forum H. 02.02.2026. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20260202.02
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"Eingewanderte sind zu Beginn ihrer beruflichen Laufbahn im Zielland überdurchschnittlich häufig in Betrieben und Branchen mit niedrigen Durchschnittslöhnen beschäftigt. Allerdings bestehen von Land zu Land erhebliche Unterschiede. Inwieweit werden diese Einkommensnachteile im Zeitablauf ausgeglichen? Und welche Rolle spielen die Betriebe selbst für die Einkommensentwicklung von Eingewanderten? Um diese Fragen ging es beim „OECD-Migrationsausblick 2025“." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Zuwanderungsmonitor Januar (2026)
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Brücker, Herbert, Andreas Hauptmann & Sekou Keita (2026): Zuwanderungsmonitor Januar. (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung. Aktuelle Daten und Indikatoren), Nürnberg, 8 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.ZM.2601
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"In aller Kürze: - Die ausländische Bevölkerung in Deutschland ist nach Angaben des Ausländerzentralregisters im Dezember 2025 gegenüber dem Vormonat um rund 8.000 Personen gesunken. - Die Beschäftigungsquote der ausländischen Bevölkerung betrug im November 2025 57,7 Prozent und ist damit im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat um 1,9 Prozentpunkte gestiegen. - Die absolute Zahl der Arbeitslosen mit einer ausländischen Staatsangehörigkeit hat im Januar 2026 gegenüber dem Vorjahresmonat um rund 5.000 Personen zugenommen. Dies entspricht einem Anstieg von 0,5 Prozent. - Die Arbeitslosenquote der ausländischen Bevölkerung lag im November 2025 bei 14,3 Prozent und ist im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat um 0,4 Prozentpunkte gesunken. - Die SGB-II-Hilfequote der ausländischen Bevölkerung lag im Oktober 2025 bei 19,3 Prozent und ist gegenüber dem Vorjahresmonat um 1,3 Prozentpunkte gesunken. - Unter den ausländischen Staatsangehörigen belief sich die Beschäftigungsquote von Frauen im Juli 2025 auf 51,0 Prozent und von Männern auf 62,8 Prozent. Die Beschäftigungsquote von Frauen mit ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit ist damit im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat um 1,9 Prozentpunkte gestiegen, die von Männern um 2,0 Prozentpunkte." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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'I needed this journey': home visits in wartime as transformative events (2026)
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Falkenhain, Mariella (2026): 'I needed this journey': home visits in wartime as transformative events. In: Journal of Refugee Studies, S. 1-15. DOI:10.1093/jrs/feaf088
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"This article examines how Ukrainian refugees experience wartime home visits. Relying on in-depth, repeated interviews with Ukrainian refugees in Germany, the article explores a state of in-betweenness that characterizes these individuals’ lives shortly after arrival, particularly by disrupting their sense of belonging and capacity to imagine the future. During short-term home visits to Ukraine, the visitors acquire a feel for life in war that is associated with complex feelings of alienation, disillusionment, and futurelessness. This experience helps individuals overcome subjective states of the in-between and move forward in life, irrespective of the persistent structural limbo related to temporary protection. Considering migrant home visits as transformative events advances recent debates about liminality and protracted displacement. It also has important implications for longer-term processes of social inclusion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Oxford University Press) ((en))
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Determinants of refugees’ generalised and institutional trust: evidence from Germany (2026)
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Kanas, Agnieszka, Frank van Tubergen & Yuliya Kosyakova (2026): Determinants of refugees’ generalised and institutional trust: evidence from Germany. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Jg. 52, H. 1, S. 85-104., 2025-05-28. DOI:10.1080/1369183x.2025.2514800
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"This paper examines the factors shaping refugees’ institutionalized and generalized trust, focusing on three key influences: (1) pre-arrival migration effects, such as experiences of trauma; (2) asylum procedure effects, including the length and outcome of the process and perceptions of fairness; and (3) post-procedure effects, particularly the context of reception. Using data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP survey of refugees in Germany, we find that the conditions of the asylum process and the reception context are critical determinants of refugees’ trust. Specifically, while the length of the asylum process and living in shared accommodations negatively affect institutional trust, these impacts are largely mediated by other refugee-specific experiences, such as perceptions of procedural and interactional justice. Receiving a positive asylum decision directly enhances refugees ’ trust in German institutions and other people, whereas being trapped in existential limbo severely erodes trust levels. Additionally, refugees subject to residency restrictions exhibit lower institutional and generalized trust levels than those without such limitations. These findings highlight the critical role of short and fair asylum procedures and inclusive reception policies in fostering trust among refugees, with significant implications for improving integration outcomes and social cohesion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labor Policies and Immigrant Employment (2026)
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Kiviholma, Sanni & Hannu Karhunen (2026): Labor Policies and Immigrant Employment. In: Journal of Economic Surveys, Jg. 40, H. 1, S. 321-339. DOI:10.1111/joes.70010
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"This survey describes the recent literature on integration and active labor market policies that strive to enhance the employment of immigrants. We searched several databases, and after screening, 63 studies satisfied our predetermined inclusion criteria. The first criterion is that the studies examine policies in Europe. Second, the search was limited to studies published between 2005 and 2024. Third, our primary outcome of interest is employment. Other outcome variables are income, labor market participation, and duration of unemployment. We focus on studies that offer experimental or quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of policies on the employment of immigrants. We divide the policy measures into the following five groups: integration programs, language training, benefits, childcare, and residency policies. Our main finding is that well-executed integration measures can improve the labor market attachment of immigrants, speed up the process of entering employment, and improve the quality of attained jobs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Return Migrant Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda (2026)
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Silva, Bárbara G., Nicholas C. Andriese & James G. Combs (2026): Return Migrant Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda. In: Entrepreneurship theory and practice, Jg. 50, H. 1, S. 115-149. DOI:10.1177/10422587251322402
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"Why do migrants return home and start businesses? Research on this multistage phenomenon—that is, return followed by entrepreneurship—is fragmented, reflecting different scholarly approaches and reasons migrants return and start businesses (or not). We systematically review 80 papers addressing aspects of returnee entrepreneurship and organize findings into a two-stage process model grounded in three levels of analysis—institutional, social, and individual. Our model contributes by providing a parsimonious way to understand returnee entrepreneurship and describe what has been learned. We also contribute a research agenda to help entrepreneurship scholars leverage what is known about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial processes to address critical unanswered questions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Labor Market Challenges and Coping Strategies of Highly Skilled Second-Generation Immigrants in Europe: A Scoping Review (2025)
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Achouche, Noa (2025): The Labor Market Challenges and Coping Strategies of Highly Skilled Second-Generation Immigrants in Europe: A Scoping Review. In: Societies, Jg. 15, H. 4. DOI:10.3390/soc15040093
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"This scoping review investigates the labor market challenges and coping strategies of highly skilled second-generation immigrants in Europe who, despite their educational and professional accomplishments, face persistent barriers related to ethnic, cultural, and religious identities. Synthesizing existing literature, the review examines obstacles to the economic integration of highly educated children of immigrants, highlighting both their perceptions of these barriers and the adaptive strategies they employ. A systematic search was conducted across Scopus, Web of Science, and EBSCOhost to identify studies published between 2010 and 2024. The selection process followed a structured five-stage framework, including defining research questions, identifying and selecting relevant studies, charting the data, and synthesizing findings. A total of 1192 records were initially identified, with 1022 retained after duplicate removal. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 68 studies were included in the review. Findings indicate that hiring discrimination, occupational segregation, and exclusion from elite professional networks remain key barriers, particularly for those of Muslim background. Despite achieving professional success, many continue to encounter symbolic boundaries that limit career advancement. In response, second-generation professionals adopt various coping strategies, including ethnic niche formation, entrepreneurship, and transnational mobility, to navigate labor market disadvantages. Challenging traditional assimilation narratives, findings reveal that professional success does not guarantee societal acceptance, as ethnic and cultural identities continue to pose significant barriers. The review concludes by identifying key research gaps, advocating for further exploration of organizational practices that perpetuate ethnic inequalities within high-skill professions, and examining transnational mobility as a coping strategy for second-generation elites. Future research should explore how gender and ethnicity intersect to shape career trajectories for second-generation women. Additionally, expanding research beyond the predominant focus on Muslim professionals to include other religious and ethnic groups would provide a more comprehensive understanding of how identity markers influence labor market outcomes. Finally, as demographic shifts reshape European labor markets, comparative studies should assess how different institutional and cultural frameworks influence patterns of inclusion and exclusion for highly skilled second-generation professionals." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Potential and temporariness of EU migration: the experience of Germany (2025)
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Adunts, Davit & Ehsan Vallizadeh (2025): Potential and temporariness of EU migration: the experience of Germany. In: M. Akgüç & W. Zwysen (Hrsg.) (2025): Moving under the radar. Ongoing challenges for short-term intra-EU mobility, S. 111-123.
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"This chapter studies the selection and sorting of EU migrants to and migration decisions within Germany in two steps. First, it investigates, with the aid of Gallup World Poll (GWP) data, the composition and characteristics of potential migrants from EU countries to Germany. Second, it uses the household survey, the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample to analyse the determinants of the migration decisions of those individuals who have already migrated to Germany. Empirical analysis of the driving factors behind migration selection reveals several interesting insights. First, migration selection among individuals who wish to migrate to Germany is driven by common factors such as economic prospects and sociodemographic features. There is a negative and significant relationship between the migration intentions of potential migrants, from both EU and non-EU countries, with regard to labour market conditions as well as perceptions of future economic conditions and living standards in the home country. Second, migration propensity to Germany is significantly lower among potential female migrants. Third, there is regional heterogeneity regarding migration selection. Potential migrants from EU countries to Germany are negatively selected in terms of educational attainment while potential migrants from non-EU countries are positively selected compared to the population in the home country. This latter finding confirms the role of migration policy in influencing migrant selection, especially for third country nationals. However, it is important to note that average education levels differ dramatically between individuals from EU and non-EU origin countries, and that potential migrants from EU countries are, on average, better educated compared to potential migrants from non-EU countries even though the latter group is more positively selected in education. The chapter also examines the sorting pattern of potential migrants in terms of their educational attainment and relative income across the top EU destination countries. Germany is at least as attractive to tertiary-educated potential migrants from non-EU states as other top EU destinations. The major exception is Scandinavian countries, which are significantly more attractive to this group compared to Germany. For potential migrants from other EU countries, Germany is, on average, less attractive to migrants with tertiary education, especially those from EU8 countries. For western European Member States countries, only the United Kingdom (UK) – which is no longer an EU Member State since 2020 – is significantly more attractive to tertiary[1]educated potential migrants than Germany. Finally, micro analysis of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and the temporariness of migration provides another set of insights. There is a negative and significant relationship between family structure and temporary migration decisions among EU migrants in Germany. Specifically, EU nationals with children aged 16 or younger are more likely to stay permanently in Germany compared to those without children. Temporary migration decisions are also negatively linked to duration of stay in Germany. This finding is consistent with the prediction that such decisions happen within the first few years after arrival (Dustmann and Görlach 2016). The temporariness of migration is also related to educational attainment and job skill requirements. For example, high-skilled migrants are about six percentage points more likely to stay temporarily in Germany compared to low-skilled ones. These findings confirm the hypothesis that the temporariness of migration varies along the educational distribution and thus may lead to a selection effect of migration (Dustmann and Görlach 2016)." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Wage Inequality Among Immigrants (2025)
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Akarsu, Mahmut Zeki & Erdem Seçilmiş (2025): Wage Inequality Among Immigrants. In: International migration review, S. 1-34. DOI:10.1177/01979183251371691
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"This study investigates the dynamics of wage inequality among immigrants in the United States, a topic often overshadowed by discussions on the effects of immigration on native workers. Utilizing a unique dataset specifically created for this research, we calculate wage inequality using the Gini coefficient and Atkinson index, offering a nuanced analysis of trends across education levels, industries, and immigration policies. The findings reveal a sharp rise in wage inequality among immigrants post-2013, surpassing overall wage inequality in the United States for the first time in 2023. High-skilled sectors, particularly IT, demonstrate a stabilizing effect on wage disparity, while low-skilled immigrants face growing wage gaps exacerbated by stringent visa policies and economic disruptions, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Our econometric analysis highlights the dual role of minimum wage policies, which increase wage inequality in the short term but reduce it over the long run. This study emphasizes the need for inclusive immigration policies that address within-group disparities and enhance equity in the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence (2025)
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Akcan, Ahmet Tayfur, İdris Yagmur, Murat Ergül & Ali Rauf Karataş (2025): Analysis of unemployment hysteresis of country groups for migration policy: PANIC fourier evidence. In: Comparative Migration Studies, Jg. 13. DOI:10.1186/s40878-025-00467-7
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"One of the most important reasons for international migration is unemployment, along with economic concerns. Domestic and international migration movements generally take place from regions with high unemployment to the regions where unemployment is low. Therefore, analyzing the labor market is important for predicting and directing migration movements. The World Bank grouping of countries includes 47 country groups according to their geographical and income status. In our study, the unemployment hysteresis of 48 groups, which includes the average of these 47 country groups and the world in general, has been analyzed. For the analysis of the unemployment hysteresis, six different variables were used: total unemployment rate, female unemployment rate, male unemployment rate, youth unemployment rate, youth female unemployment rate, and youth male unemployment rate. For analysis of unemployment hysteresis, the Fourier PANIC panel unit root test, which entered the literature in 2023, was used. Significant results were obtained for country groups. The results of the analysis show that the unemployment hysteresis is valid for total unemployment worldwide, while the natural rate hypothesis is prominent for youth and young males. While hysteresis is observed in total and male unemployment in low- and middle-income countries, the natural rate hypothesis is generally valid in high-income countries; however, hysteresis persists in female unemployment. Therefore, at the global level, encouraging controlled and need-driven migration movements from regions where the unemployment hysteresis is valid to regions where the natural rate hypothesis is valid, can contribute to reducing imbalances in labor markets. At the national level, selective labor transfer policies, taking into account labor market needs, can be implemented from regions with high unemployment hysteresis." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Business migration between labour and trade: evidence from Switzerland (2025)
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Alvarado, Mariana, Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Sandra Lavenex & Philipp Lutz (2025): Business migration between labour and trade: evidence from Switzerland. In: Comparative Migration Studies, Jg. 13, H. 1. DOI:10.1186/s40878-025-00483-7
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"Largely unnoticed by the migration literature, business migration has established itself as a form of labor migration that is substantial in terms of numbers and receives preferential treatment in international and national migration law. Intra-corporate transferees, contractual service suppliers and business visitors all fall within this category and benefit from facilitated admission procedures agreed under trade agreements and corresponding provisions in national legislation. Assigned for temporary stays and retaining their work contract in the home country, these business migrants represent a “market model” of migration policy exploiting the economic benefits of human movement while avoiding migrants’ integration into the host countries’ labor market and society. This article conceptualizes business migration at the nexus of trade law, international labor markets and migration research and uses a mix of legal analysis, population register and other statistical data as well as survey data from Switzerland to demonstrate the scale and importance of this under-investigated yet significant type of economic migration. Amounting to nearly half of the regulated labour immigration into Switzerland, business migration is strongly associated with trade and investment ties as well as the presence of multinational companies. In contrast, trade agreements facilitating this type of labour mobility have no systematic effect." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effect of immigration on the wage of natives, combining intensive and extensive labour supply margins (2025)
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Badaoui, Eliane & Frank Walsh (2025): The effect of immigration on the wage of natives, combining intensive and extensive labour supply margins. In: Journal of Economics, Jg. 146, H. 1, S. 1-57. DOI:10.1007/s00712-025-00903-3
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"We incorporate positive labor supply elasticities on the intensive and extensive margins into a standard model looking at the impact of immigration on hourly and weekly wages in the host region. When natives and migrants are perfect substitutes, a higher labor supply elasticity on the extensive margin reduces the magnitude of the negative hourly and weekly wage elasticity resulting from immigration. Conversely, a higher labor supply elasticity on the intensive margin is very likely to amplify the negative impact of immigration on the weekly wage, due to a reduction in weekly working hours. Simulations suggest that incorporating labour supply effects offsets negative wage effects, especially for parameter values that would otherwise imply a relatively large negative wage elasticity from immigration. The change in the wage elasticity of migration from incorporating labor supply effects is often small, but for special cases where labour supply elasticities are substantial the effects can be important." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Evaluation der berufsbezogenen Deutschsprachförderung nach § 45a AufenthG: Abschlussbericht Option (2025)
Baderschneider, Ariane; Theimert, Hannes; Caliendo, Marco ; Hecker, Kristin; Boockmann, Bernhard; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Pfeiffer, Iris; Kugler, Philipp ; Mahlstedt, Robert ;Zitatform
Baderschneider, Ariane, Bernhard Boockmann, Marco Caliendo, Kristin Hecker, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Philipp Kugler, Robert Mahlstedt & Iris Pfeiffer (2025): Evaluation der berufsbezogenen Deutschsprachförderung nach § 45a AufenthG. Abschlussbericht Option. (Forschungsbericht / Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales 660), Berlin, 59 S.
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"Berufssprachkurse sind seit 2016 als Förderinstrument bundesweit verfügbar. Sie bauen auf den Integrationskursen auf und setzen den Spracherwerb auf fortgeschrittenem Niveau fort. Mit den Berufssprachkursen sollen die Chancen von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund auf dem Ausbildungs- und Arbeitsmarkt verbessert werden. Der nun vorliegende Optionsbericht ist Ergebnis einer Folgeuntersuchung zur Evaluation der Berufssprachkurse vom Oktober 2023. Die Evaluation sollte insbesondere ermitteln, ob die Ziele der berufsbezogenen Deutschsprachförderung erreicht werden, und wie sich die Teilnahme an Berufssprachkursen auf die Arbeitsmarktintegration der Teilnehmenden auswirkt. Darüber hinaus ging es um die Fragen, welche Zielgruppen besonders von einem Kursbesuch profitieren, welche Faktoren die Wirkungen der berufsbezogenen Deutschsprachförderung fördern (oder hemmen) und welche Empfehlungen sich aus den Ergebnissen der Untersuchung ableiten lassen. Der Optionsbericht ergänzt die Resultate des Hauptberichts und enthält zusätzliche Einschätzungen zum Verlauf der Sprachförderung, weitergehende Ergebnisse zu deren Wirkung sowie darauf aufbauend eine Analyse der Wirtschaftlichkeit in längerfristiger Betrachtung. Der Bericht hebt unter anderen hervor, dass Absolventinnen und Absolventen eines Berufssprachkurses nach vier Jahren signifikant häufiger in sozialversicherungspflichtiger Beschäftigung sind als Nichtteilnehmende. Dabei profitieren Frauen früher und stärker von der Teilnahme. Für sie verzeichnet die Untersuchung bereits zwölf Monate nach Kursbeginn eine höhere und kontinuierlich ansteigende Wahrscheinlichkeit, eine sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung aufzunehmen. Darüber hinaus gelingt es allen Teilnehmenden bereits ein Jahr nach Kursbeginn deutlich häufiger als Nichtteilnehmenden, in eine Ausbildung oder berufliche Weiterbildung einzutreten. Im weiteren Verlauf verstärkt sich dieser positive Effekt der Sprachförderung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Immigrant Integration: the Role of Firms (2025)
Barreto, César; Hijzen, Alexander; Damas de Matos, Ana;Zitatform
Barreto, César, Ana Damas de Matos & Alexander Hijzen (2025): Immigrant Integration: the Role of Firms. In: OECD (Hrsg.) (2025): International Migration Outlook 2025, S. 123-150.
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"This chapter sheds new light on the integration of immigrants in the labour market by focussing on the role of firms in shaping the immigrant earnings gap using linked employer-employee data for 15 OECD countries. The chapter starts by documenting the immigrant earnings gap at entry in the labour market and the extent to which it is driven by immigrants working disproportionately in lower-paying firms, industries and occupations. It then analyses how the earnings gap evolves as immigrants integrate in the labour market by moving to better-paying firms, industries and occupations. The implications for immigrant integration policy are discussed in the conclusion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Immigrants Return Intentions and Labor Market Behavior When the Home Country is Unsafe (2025)
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Bassetto, Jacopo & Teresa Freitas Monteiro (2025): Immigrants Return Intentions and Labor Market Behavior When the Home Country is Unsafe. In: Journal of labor economics, S. 1-52. DOI:10.1086/739054
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"This paper investigates whether shocks to safety conditions in the home country affect immigrants’ return intentions and labor market behavior. For identification, we exploit the quasi-random occurrence of violent events in the home-country relative to the timing of interviews and job separations in Germany. We show that immigrants interviewed after a violent event in their home-country are more likely to wish to remain in Germany permanently. If immigrants enter unemployment following a violent event in their home-country, they increase their job search effort and find employment faster, at the cost of accepting lower wages and working in less productive firms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Racial Inequality in the Labor Market (2025)
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Bayer, Patrick, Kerwin Kofi Charles & Ellora Derenoncourt (2025): Racial Inequality in the Labor Market. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 33372), Cambridge, Mass, 82 S.
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"In this chapter, we introduce a new framework for studying the evolution of racial inequality in the labor market. The framework encompasses two broad forces – distributional and positional – that affect labor market gaps by racial and ethnic identity over time. We provide long-run results on the evolution of Black-White earnings gaps, including new results for Black and White women, and we review the evidence on historical factors affecting racial gaps. We then provide new results on racial gaps among other groups in the U.S. and discuss the evidence on racial gaps outside the U.S. We then discuss the role of prejudice-based discrimination in driving racial gaps, particularly in the post-civil-rights era, a period when such discrimination has been thought to play a declining role in racial inequality. We describe forces that can amplify existing discrimination, such as monopsony and workers' perceptions of prejudice in the economy, and we discuss recent literature directly measuring discrimination through expanded audit studies and quasi-experimental variation. We conclude with a discussion of existing and new frontiers on race in the labor market, including stratification, reformulations of prejudice, and understanding the way race has shaped purportedly race-neutral institutions throughout the economy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Intersecting Shocks: The Combined Labor Market Impacts of Automation and Immigration (2025)
Bennett, Patrick; Johnsen, Julian Vedeler;Zitatform
Bennett, Patrick & Julian Vedeler Johnsen (2025): Intersecting Shocks: The Combined Labor Market Impacts of Automation and Immigration. (CESifo working paper 12217), München, 41 S.
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"We study how the labor market shocks of automation and immigration interact to shape workers' outcomes. Using matched employer –employee data from Norwegian administrative registers, we combine animmigration shock triggered by the European Union's 2004 enlargement with an automation shock based on the adoption of industrial robots across Europe. Although these shocks largely occur in separate industries, we show that automation reduces earnings not only in manufacturing but also in construction, where tasks overlap with robot-exposed sectors. Importantly, workers jointly exposed to automation and immigration suffer earnings losses greater than those facing either shock in isolation. These losses are driven by downward occupational mobility into low-wage services and re-sorting into lower-premium firms. Even within the Norwegian welfare system, the ability of social insurance to offset these long-run earnings declines is limited. Our findings underscore the importance of analyzing labor market shocks jointly, rather than in isolation, to fully understand their distributional consequences." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The integration of migrants in the German labour market: evidence over 50 years (2025)
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Berbée, Paul & Jan Stuhler (2025): The integration of migrants in the German labour market: evidence over 50 years. In: Economic Policy, Jg. 40, H. 122, S. 481-549. DOI:10.1093/epolic/eiae040
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"SUMMARY: Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labur market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to the US case. Although the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after one decade is 10 percentage points. Conversely, income gaps tend to widen post-arrival. Compositional differences explain how those gaps vary across groups, and why they worsened over time; after accounting for composition, integration outcomes show no systematic trend. Still, economic conditions do matter, and employment collapsed in some cohorts after structural shocks hit the German labor market in the early 1990s. Lastly, we examine the integration of recent arrivals during the European refugee ‘crisis’ and the Russo-Ukrainian war." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Literaturhinweis
Interdependent hazards, local interactions and the return decision of recent migrants (2025)
Zitatform
Bijwaard, Govert E. & Christian Schluter (2025): Interdependent hazards, local interactions and the return decision of recent migrants. In: Spatial Economic Analysis, S. 1-21. DOI:10.1080/17421772.2025.2530498
Abstract
"We propose a new statistical model of spatially interdependent hazards in order to examine whether interactions at the level of the neighborhood are present. To address the endogeneity of location choices, we also implement a weighting scheme that combines insights from inverse propensity score weighting and Bartik-shift-share instrumentation. The good performance of our approach is demonstrated in a Monte Carlo study. In our empirical application a unique large administrative dataset of recent Turkish labor immigrants to The Netherlands is used. We find a positive spatial interaction parameter and show that the local spatial multipliers are substantial." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
Aspekt auswählen:
- Forschung und Ergebnisse aus dem IAB
- Einwanderungspolitik
- Auswirkungen von Migration
- Wanderungsmotivation und Rückwanderung
- Arbeitslosigkeit und Arbeitsmarktpolitik
- Qualifikation, Bildung und Beschäftigung
- Integration und soziale Teilhabe
- internationale Aspekte
- Personengruppen