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dc.contributor.authorBROCKMANN, Hilke
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-13T15:05:40Z
dc.date.available2017-12-13T15:05:40Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/49424
dc.description.abstractFirst-generation immigrants in Germany are surprisingly satisfied with their life. We test to what extent selection, adaptation, or resilience explains their comparatively high level of subjective well-being (SWB). Using Panel data from 1984-2014, we run simultaneous probit and growth curve models and identify competing mechanisms of positive integration. We find mixed evidence for health selection: First-generation immigrants are younger but overall less healthy than Germans. Irrespective of selectivity, significant evidence supports purposive adaptation: First-generation immigrants maintain high levels of happiness by using the local German population as a benchmark only to evaluate their economic situation but not to evaluate their family life. Thus, there is economic but not socio-cultural adaptation. Finally, we find some evidence of higher social but not economic resilience among first-generation immigrants than among Germans. We speculate what this implies for family unification for migrants.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI RSCASen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2017/63en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectFirst-generation migrationen
dc.subjectSelectionen
dc.subjectAdaptationen
dc.subjectResilienceen
dc.subjectGrowth curve modelen
dc.titleHappy newcomers? : subjective well-being of first-generation immigrants in Germanyen
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