Income Composition and Redistribution in Germany — The Role of Ethnic Origin
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This paper deals with the relative economic performance of immigrants compared to the native born population in Germany. We compare pre-and post-government income, using data from the German SocioEconomic Panel from 1995 to 1997. We categorize six population subgroups by the ethnicity of the adult household members: native-born West Germans, East Germans, " pure " Aussiedler (ethnic German immigrants), " pure " non-ethnic German foreign immigrants, and " mixed " immigrants, either Aussiedler or foreign, living with an adult native-born German. Our results show that immigrants are quite heterogeneous with respect to their economic performance but, overall, non-ethnic German immigrants are net payers to the social security system. The two subgroups substantially benefiting from the income redistribution are " pure " Aussiedler and East Germans. By this measure, immigrants of non-German nationality are not an economic burden to the native-born population.
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Income Composition and Redistribution in Germany: The Role of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation
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