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German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study • 13.02.2019First Survey Wave Successful
The first wave of the longitudinal study on German emigrants and remigrants is completed. Participation was significantly higher than anticipated so that the target number of 6,000 respondents was topped.
Persons aged 20 to 70 years who had been selected at random from the population registries of German municipalities were invited to take part in the survey. The evaluation phase has just started and the first results will be published in the course of the year 2019. Three further survey waves will follow by 2021.
Aims and Contents of the Study
The “German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS)“ is a longitudinal survey conducted among emigrants and remigrants with German nationality that is sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). The aim is to gain more knowledge about the individual consequences of migration in the life course, based on the example of migration from Germany and return migration to Germany, since an increasing number of people today are spending a part of their lives abroad. The research project investigates the consequences of migrations along four dimensions of the life course such as gainful employment and income, well-being and life satisfaction, partnership and family as well as social relationships and social participation.
With the help of repeated interviews at intervals of several months the GERPS project is intended to provide for the first time an empirical database to examine the consequences of international migration on the life course. The BiB is conducting the study in cooperation with the University of Duisburg-Essen.