TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fertig, Michael
        TI  - The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany
        PY  - 2004/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1213
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1213
        AB  - This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated
into German society by utilizing a variety of qualitative information and subjective data
collected in the 1999 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). To this end,
leisure-time activities and attitudes of native Germans, ethnic Germans and foreign
immigrants of different generations are compared. The empirical results suggest that
conditional on observable characteristics the activities and attitudes of foreign immigrants
from both generations differ much more from those of native Germans than the
activities/attitudes of ethnic Germans. Furthermore, the attitudes of second-generation
immigrants tend to be characterized by a larger degree of fatalism, pessimism and self-doubt
than those of all other groups, although their activities and participation in societal life
resemble more those of native Germans than those of their parents’ generation.
        KW  - subjective data
KW  - ethnic Germans
KW  - first- and second-generation immigrants
        ER  -