International migration that is motivated by the striving for a better life is growing explosively.
Migrants and policymakers would benefit from knowing whether migrants' outcomes reflect …

Over the past decades migration has increased dramatically. Most of the scientific literature
on immigrant mental health has focussed on stress, distress and mental illness. Less …

Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural
interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this …

Research on immigrants' assimilation is widespread both in the US and Europe. While it has
been extensively studied how immigrants fare compared to natives on socio-economic …

This study examines immigrants' identification with the host country. We use survey data of
more than 1,700 T urkish and M oroccan immigrants and more than 2,200 natives in the N …

Previous studies have shown that immigrants' levels of life satisfaction tend to be lower than
among natives. We do not know, however, whether this is due to the immigration experience …

Abstract Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the relevance of modeling
social comparisons to determine their effect on subjective well-being. We find that it is …

Migrants look for a better life. In what kind of country will they live happiest? Many migrants
aspire to move to wealthy countries, but non-economic factors might be important as well in …

Immigrants in developed countries typically fail to assimilate in terms of their subjective well-
being, meaning that their happiness and life satisfaction do not substantially increase with …

This study analyzes the relation of socio-economic status and psychological well-being in a
sample of 327 Turkish immigrant mothers in Germany. We assessed maternal psychological …