Research

 

Current projects

Origins matter: Immigrant selectivity in Western Europe
2019-2022
Funding Agency: DFG

When immigrants are aiming high: Educational achievement and attainment in light of greater aspirations
2018-2020
Funding Agency: DFG (DFG priority program 1646 „Education as a lifelong process“)

Recent immigration processes and early integration trajectories in Germany
2017-2020
Funding Agency: DFG

 

Completed projects

Immigrants' first and second language proficiency and social integration (2nd funding period)
2015-2018
Funding Agency: DFG (DFG priority program 1646 „Education as a lifelong process“)

Moving beyond mean differences: The role of educational systems in ethnic educational achievement and labor market inequality
2015-2018
Funding Agency: DFG

Foreign accents and immigrants’ labor market integration
2014-2016

Immigrants’ first and second language proficiency and social integration (1st funding period)
2012-2015
Funding Agency: DFG (DFG priority program 1646 „Education as a lifelong process“)

KuL - Competence acquisition and learning preconditions
2012-2015
Funding Agency: BMBF

SCIP - Causes and consequences of early socio-cultural integration processes among new immigrants in Europe
2009-2013
Funding Agency: NORFACE (DFG)

Ethnic inequalities across the educational career: Trends since 2005
2013
Funding Agency: Stiftung Mercator

 

Research networks

NEPS - National Education Panel Study: Education acquisition with migration background in the life course 

 

Former research networks

Pathways to Power: The Representation of citizens of immigrant origin in eight European democracies (‘PATHWAYS’)

Ethnic educational inequality in comparative perspective
2005-2010
Funding Agency: EU [Network of Excellence: Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC)]