Arbeitspapier
Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany.We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and exclusion, confirming much of the economic literature examining the economic assimilation of immigrants in Germany.We propose a weighting scheme that weights components of social inclusion by their subjective contribution to an overall measure of life satisfaction. Using this weighting scheme to calculate an index of social inclusion, we find that immigrants are in fact as 'included' as Germans. This result is driven strongly by the disproportionately positive sociodemographic characteristics that immigrants possess as measured by the contribution to their life satisfaction.
- ISBN
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978-3-86788-027-5
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 31
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
General Welfare; Well-Being
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Subject
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Social exclusion
international migration
integration
Soziale Integration
Soziale Isolation
Migranten
Lebenszufriedenheit
Deutschland
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Haisken-DeNew, John P.
Sinning, Mathias
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
- (where)
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Essen
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Haisken-DeNew, John P.
- Sinning, Mathias
- Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
Time of origin
- 2007