Immigrant performance in the UK and Germany

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

20 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

05/12/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

International relations

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Summary :

Introduction
Theoretical background
1. Role and diversity of human capital endowments
2. Role of segmentation
3. Theories of discrimination
Empirical results
1. Germany â€" An overview of immigration history
2. Germany â€" Today's picture
3. The UK - An overview of immigration history
4. The UK â€" Today's picture
5. A Summary: Similarities and differences between the two countries
Difference in economic performances
Policy implications
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix 1

Abstract

This paper reviews the existing literature on ethnic inequality and discrimination in the labor market, to then analyze the economic performance of various ethnic groups in germany and the UK. Main findings are that in the UK the immigrant population as a whole performs similarly to the natives; however, breaking the former down by ethnic origin reveals great differences in the labor market success, including groups that are outperforming the indigenous population. In contrast, the immigrant population in germany achieves lower than the natives. In germany, most of those differences can be attributed to an overall rather low-skilled immigrant sample. In contrast to that the UK, due to a more liberal welfare system and tougher immigrant selection policies, has a greater tradition of attracting high-skilled immigrants as well.

Increased immigrant populations in the UK and germany have been seen during the last decades. Different historical reasons were the beginning of these migrant flows entering those countries, generating sometimes controversial debates. Integration was often not very successful. The best example for that was the letter that became public, written by teachers from the "Rütli-Schule" in Berlin Neukölln. In this letter they ask for help and described the situation in their school: an aggressive atmosphere, ignorance, missing respect, willingness to be violent: doors were kicked in, misused bins etc. These were only a couple of the words they used in their letter.