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Junge Ukrainerin formt Herz in Landesfarben (refer to: Children and young people from Ukraine now often speak good German) | Source: © Anna/stock.adobe.com

Press ReleaseChildren and young people from Ukraine now often speak good German

As part of an additional survey by the BiB/FReDA project ‘Refugees from Ukraine in Germany’, 11- to 17-year-old Ukrainian children and adolescents were interviewed about their living situation – including school, leisure time, and life satisfaction.

Peer-Reviewed Articles in Scientific JournalsVisualizing the housing cost burden of migrants and natives across the income distribution

Witte, Nils (2024)

Socius 10

DOI: 10.1177/23780231241298806

A majority of German households are occupied by renters. There are indications of growing inequality through disproportional income increases among high-income households and disproportional rent increases among low-income households. On the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel, the author examines rent-income ratios (RIRs) and differentiates between migrants and natives. How did RIRs develop between 1990 and 2020, and are there any differences across the distribution? There are three key findings. First, dynamics of RIRs suggest rising economic inequality among both migrants and natives. Second, although both groups grew more unequal over time, the inequality increase was stronger among migrants. Third, migrants generally faced steeper rent hikes than natives, which partly accounts for a higher rent burden among income-poor migrants. These descriptive findings point out avenues for systematic research of the increases in inequality related to rent and income dynamics and their ethnoracial stratification.

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