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  • In Germany, as in several other European countries, the number of self-employed immigrants has steadily increased throughout the past years, which might be interpreted as an indicator of the increasing integration of immigrants into German society. However, it has been argued that this development has been caused by the rising level of unemployment among foreigners and that for this reason the forced self-employment will not contribute to the social and economic integration of former guest-workers. On the contrary—so the argument goes—, the marginal position of the self-employed will rather resemble those of wage-earners. By analysing the German Microcensus of 1995 we tried to find out whether the self-employment of immigrants in Germany could be interpreted as a sign of integration. For this purpose, we compared Germans with the foreign population, which we divided into two groups: immigrants from countries most former guest-workers came from, such as Greece and Turkey, were distinguished from immigrants from industrial nations, such as the United States, France, Great Britain, and others. It is well known that these two groups differ considerably in their socio-economic characteristics. Therefore, the starting positions for self-employment show significant differences for the two groups. Our findings confirm that the self-employment of immigrants from former guest-worker countries does not have the same quality in terms of branches and income as the self-employment of Germans and foreigners from industrial nations. At the same time, however, it turns out that among immigrants from former guest-worker countries the self-employed have higher levels of education and income than workers and employees. A logistic regression confirms the more favourable income structure of the self-employed while controlling for relevant variables. For this reason, the increasing number of self-employed immigrants from former guest-worker countries can certainly be considered as a sign of their gradual integration. (xsd:string)
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  • Selbständigkeit von Immigranten in Deutschland - Ausgrenzung oder Weg der Integration? (xsd:string)
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  • In Soziale Welt, 51, 289-302, 2000 (xsd:string)
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