Segregation and Labour Market Outcomes of Turkish Immigrants (in a Comparative Perspective)

Research question/goal: 

In recent studies it could be shown that Turks play an exceptional role with respect to labour market integration of immigrants in Germany as they are considerably disadvantaged even controlling for educational qualifications and even in the second generation. This project aims at analyzing the reasons for this focusing on the relative impact of segregation vs. other explanations like culture or discrimination. Comparing Germany to other societal contexts will provide a strategic and critical variation of all three possible influence factors.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
MZES
Duration: 
2003 to 2005
Status: 
canceled
Data Sources: 
microdata from the official statistics, standardized Surveys
Geographic Space: 
Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands

Publications

Journal Articles

Kalter, Frank (2003): Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration (Review of Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss, eds.). Contemporary Sociology, 32, issue 5, pp. 606-608. more
Kalter, Frank, and Nadia Granato (2002): Demographic Change, Educational Expansion, and Structural Assimilation of Immigrants: The Case of Germany. European Sociological Review, 18, pp. 199-216. more

Book Chapters

Kogan, Irena (2007): Continuing Ethnic Segmentation in Austria. Pp. 103-141 in: Anthony F. Heath, Sin Yi Cheung (Eds.) Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more

Conference Presentations

Kogan, Irena, and Yinon Cohen (2004): Jewish immigrants from the FSU in Germany and Israel: demographic and socioecnomic characteristics. [Conference 'Russian Jews in Germany in the 20th and 21st centuries', University of Sussex, Brighton, December 13th to December 14th, 2004] more
Esser, Hartmut (2004): Der Anstieg der Scheidungsraten. [Sitzung der Philosophischen Klasse der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg, July 09th, 2004] more
Kogan, Irena (2004): Turks and Ex-Yugoslavs in Austria and Germany: The effects of relative group size on occupational outcomes. [European Society or European Societies? EURESCO/ECSR-Conference on the Causes and Consequences of Low Education in Contemporary Europe, Granada, September 18th to September 23rd, 2004] more