Immigrants’ initial steps in Germany and their later economic success

Kogan, Irena; Weißmann, Markus

doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2013.04.002

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“…This third research perspective focuses on the migration process itself and asks for changes in various life domains and how these changes are connected with the migration process (e.g. Fuller 2015; Kogan and Weißmann 2013;Windzio and Aybek 2015;Wingens et al 2011). Additionally, the temporal reference unit, migration, is particularly sensitive for different durations of migration.…”

Section: Towards a New Conceptual Framework For Migration Studiesmentioning

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Between Origin and Destination: German Migrants and the Individual Consequences of Their Global Lives

Erlinghagen

Ette

Schneider

et al. 2021

IMISCOE Research Series

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During the twentieth century, international migration was mainly understood as immigration into economically highly developed welfare states. This has changed over the course of recent decades because these countries are meanwhile also understood as important sources of international mobility. Whereas international mobility experiences have potentially far-reaching consequences for social inequalities and life chances, migration studies have only little experience in analysing international migration from those economically highly developed welfare states. This introduction frames the chapters in this volume that contribute to fill this gap by examining the individual consequences of global lives not only as a question of migrants’ integration into receiving societies (destination). Rather, the consequences of international mobility are also studied by comparing migrants with the non-mobile population of the country of origin (origin) and as results of specific trajectories (migration) in individual life courses during the migration process (Destination-Origin-Migration Approach). The introduction also provides an overview of how this approach is utilised by the different chapters of the book, all based on the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS), which provides a comprehensive empirical basis for studying the consequences of international migration along four dimensions of the life course: employment and social mobility, partner and family, wellbeing and health, as well as friends and social integration.

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Section: Towards a New Conceptual Framework For Migration Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between Origin and Destination: German Migrants and the Individual Consequences of Their Global Lives

Erlinghagen

Ette

Schneider

et al. 2021

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…Over time, however, migrants are expected to catch up with natives, as they acquire social networks, language skills and other host country human capital that will help them overcome initial shortfalls (Akresh 2008;Borjas 1994;Chiswick 1978;Friedberg 2000;Kalter and Granato 2007;Reitz 2007). This process of gradual socioeconomic convergence is not uniform and varies considerably across different migrant groups (Kogan and Weißmann 2013;Stier and Levanon 2003). Some migrants arrive in a new country and quickly make a transition into (steady) employment, while others face stubbornly persistent labor market barriers (Barbiano di Belgiojoso 2019; Fuller and Martin 2012;Simón et al 2014).…”

Section: Refugees' Labor Market Integration: What We Knowmentioning

confidence: 99%

Double Jeopardy: How Refugees Fare in One European Labor Market

Lens

Marx

Vujić

2019

IZA Journal of Development and Migration

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This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 1999 and 2009. Belgium offers a relatively easy formal labor market access to refugees and other types of migrants but they face many other barriers in this strongly regulated and institutionalized labor market. Based on a longitudinal dataset that links respondents’ information from the Belgian Labor Force Survey with comprehensive social security data on their work histories, we estimate discrete-time hazard models to analyze refugees’ entry into and exit out of the first employment spell, contrasting their outcomes with family and labor migrants of the same arrival cohort. The analysis shows that refugees take significantly longer to enter their first employment spell as compared with other migrant groups. They also run a greater risk of exiting out of their first employment spell (back) into social assistance and into unemployment. The low employment rates of refugees are thus not only due to a slow integration process upon arrival, but also reflect a disproportional risk of exiting the labor market after a period in work. Our findings indicate that helping refugees into a first job is not sufficient to ensure labor market participation in the long run, because these jobs may be short-lived. Instead, our results provide clear arguments in favor of policies that support sustainable labor market integration.

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“…The authors related their findings to the short-term nature of migration and the occupational downshifting abroad (e.g., during a short-term employment in Finland) as well as the specific segmentation of the Estonian labor market, which allows little upward mobility across educational and class boundaries. Similarly, Kogan and Weißmann (2013) argue that in Germany a strong horizontal and vertical segmentation of the labor market favors the concentration of short-term migrants in certain occupational nichesregardless of their previous occupation-and thus restricts upward mobility chances.…”

Section: State Of the Research: Transnational Labor Activities And Ocmentioning

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Crossing the Border for Higher Status? Occupational Mobility of East–West Commuters in the Central European Region

Wiesböck

Verwiebe

2017

International Journal of Sociology

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This article discusses cross-border occupational mobility of workers from the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia who found employment in Austria. We illustrate this topic using data from a longitudinal survey on the employment careers of 1,347 cross-border commuters working in Austria conducted in the winter/spring of 2012/13. Empirically, we demonstrate that despite efforts to diminish structural inequalities between the regions, differences in unemployment and poverty rates continue to play a role. We further find that the majority of cross-border commuters have a different socioeconomic structure than locally residing Austrians overall commuters mostly show mid-level qualifications and work in branches with a high demand for labor (e.g., construction, gastronomy, health industry). Against this background, we pursue the following research question: to what extent are the patterns of occupational mobility of cross-border commuters in Austria influenced by sociodemographic factors, human capital, social capital, and labor market characteristics?

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Immigrants’ initial steps in Germany and their later economic success

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Between Origin and Destination: German Migrants and the Individual Consequences of Their Global Lives

Between Origin and Destination: German Migrants and the Individual Consequences of Their Global Lives

Double Jeopardy: How Refugees Fare in One European Labor Market

Crossing the Border for Higher Status? Occupational Mobility of East–West Commuters in the Central European Region

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