Immigrant Performance in the UK and Germany

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In the XIXth century, Roubaix became the world textiles capital. Its factories were the most modern in the world while its wool exchange was the most influential, even almost two hundred years after, one of the last and most famous wool factories of Roubaix closed in 2000. And yet, several textile corporations like La Redoute, 3 Suisses and Camaïeu are still located in the North of France even if their factories have been gradually relocated to Asia since 1975. Engineering students specialized in textiles are still taught in schools like ENSAIT in Roubaix. Although textile production doesn't exist any longer, textiles still exist. Cyrillus is one of these firms that are still active, but to keep their place on the world market, they must innovate, to find the right way to sell their products and to be competitive. These means are numerous and this is what this Company project is about.

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[...] A vicious cycle emerges, pulling immigrants into it when they are still children, which is hard to break through. Weak language skills in addition to a lack of support from low- skilled parents and missing educational resources are an immense disadvantage for foreign children in school. Furthermore, children tend to be left alone with their problems– school-wise and others due to a lack of care from their parents and violence is also not seldom found in those homes (see for example Luft, 2006). [...]

[...] In Germany these were the ethnic Germans and in the UK the former British colonies. Another common feature is that a large proportion of today's immigrant population entered the countries for family reunification. In Germany this was the case after the recruitment stop and in Britain after tightening the immigration policies in the 1960s and 70s. In this situation both countries experienced a large inflow of low-skilled people with human capital endowments that were not as much transferable to the host country's labour market demands (see for example Büchel and Frick, 20003). [...]

[...] develop their language and gather other useful information about the host country. On the other hand, β4 and β7 might be negative due to immigrants having a language disadvantage and therefore a smaller marginal return to schooling than natives. According to this model, the greater those four coefficients are, relative to β3 and β6, which indicate the native's rate of return to the same or similar skills, the higher will be the immigrant's wage relative to that of indigenous people. [...]

[...] Another major difference is the distinction between the welfare systems in the two countries. The UK has a more liberal one, being characterised by relatively low taxes, modest universal transfers and social security plans. Influences from EU side bring in more social policy standards; however, the UK has been fairly reluctant to these so far and as a result attracts more high skilled people than Germany. The latter is characterised by a more corporatist welfare system. Redistribution effects are rather high as a result of well- established public pensions, health care plans and unemployment insurance. [...]