Federal Institute for Population Research

Stein, Annika; Gummer, Tobias; Naumann, Elias; Rohr, Björn; Roman Auriga, Silber; Bergmann, Michael; Bethmann, Arne; Blohm, Michael; Cornesse, Carina; Christmann, Pablo; Coban, Mustafa; Décieux, Jean-Philippe; Gauly, Britta; Hahn, Caroline; Helmschrott, Susanne; Hochman, Oshrat; Lemcke, Johannes; Naber, Dörte; Pötzschke, Steffen; Roßmann, Joss; Schanze, Jan-Lucas; Schmidt, Tobias; Schneider, Silke L.; Spangenberg, Heike; Rettig, Tobias; Trappmann, Mark; Weinhardt, Michael; Weiß, Bernd (2025):

Education bias in probability-based surveys in Germany: evidence and possible solutions.

International Journal of Social Research Methodology (online first): 1–18.

Erlinghagen, Marcel; Hank, Karsten (2024):

Transnational Family Relations of German Emigrants.

Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Witte, Nils (2021):

Mobile Europeans love Europe but participate less in European Parliament elections.

LSE Blog.

Décieux, Jean Philippe; Sischka, Philipp E. (2024):

Comparing data quality and response behavior between smartphone, tablet, and computer devices in responsive design online surveys.

Sage Open 14(2).

Décieux, Jean Philippe; Altmann, Tobias (2024):

The relationship between migration and the Big Five personality traits: Evidence from probability-based samples.

Population, Space and Place [Online First].

Genoni, Andreas; Stawarz, Nico; Ette, Andreas; Rüger, Heiko (2024):

International migration and shifts in subjective well-being: A longitudinal study using German panel data.

Migration Studies: 1–19.

Witte, Nils; Ette, Andreas; Sander, Nikola (2023):

How do global crises affect privileged migrants? Return migration of German emigrants one year into the Covid-19 pandemic.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Stawarz, Nico; Witte, Nils (2023):

Who blames Brexit for their decision to leave the UK? The departure of skilled Germans from Britain after the referendum.

European Societies.

Witte, Nils; Stawarz, Nico; Netz, Nicolai (2023):

Career start abroad: The implications of graduate migration for social inequality.

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 83.

Mansfeld, Lisa (2023):

International migration and its short-term effect on partnership stability .

Population, Space and Place.

Décieux, Jean Philippe; Heinz, Andreas (2022):

Does a short-term deadline extension affect participation rates of an online survey? Experimental evidence from an online panel.

International Journal of Social Research Methodology [Online First].

Witte, Nils; Décieux, Jean Philippe; Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Genoni, Andreas; Guedes Auditor, Jean; Knirsch, Frederik; Kühne, Simon; Mansfeld, Lisa; Schneider, Norbert F. (2022):

German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS): Documentation of the Third Wave.

BiB Data and Technical Reports 2/2022. Wiesbaden: Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).

Décieux, Jean Philippe (2022):

Sequential On-Device Multitasking within Online Surveys: A Data Quality and Response Behavior Perspective.

Sociological Methods & Research [Online First].

Witte, Nils; Schaurer, Ines; Schröder, Jette; Décieux, Jean Philippe; Ette, Andreas (2022):

Enhancing Participation in Probability-Based Online Panels. Two Incentive Experiments and their Effects on Response and Panel Recruitment.

Social Science Computer Review (online first).

Ette, Andreas; Genoni, Andreas; Witte, Nils (2021):

Internationale Mobilität und Sozialstruktur.

Statistisches Bundesamt; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung; Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (Eds.): Datenreport 2021. Ein Sozialbericht für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Reihe Zeitbilder. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: 316–323.

Mansfeld, Lisa (2021):

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Frequency of Emigrants’ Contact with Friends in Germany and its Impact on Subjective Well-Being.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 229–246.

Baykara-Krumme, Helen; Erlinghagen, Marcel; Mansfeld, Lisa (2021):

Disruption of Family Lives in the Course of Migration: ‘Tied Migrants’ and Partnership Breakup Patterns Among German (R)emigrants.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 173–186.

Erlinghagen, Marcel (2021):

Migration Motives, Timing, and Outcomes of Internationally Mobile Couples.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 157–171.

Mansfeld, Lisa (2021):

Auswirkungen von Migration auf die Stabilität von Partnerschaften.

In: Blättel-Mink, Birgit (Ed.): Gesellschaft unter Spannung. Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020. Berlin.

Lübke, Christiane; Décieux, Jean Philippe; Erlinghagen, Marcel; Wagner, Gerd G. (2021):

Comparing the Risk Attitudes of Internationally Mobile and Non-Mobile Germans.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 85–100.

Ette, Andreas; Sauer, Lenore; Fauser, Margit (2021):

Settlement or Return? The Intended Permanence of Emigration from Germany Across the Life Course.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 101–118.

Witte, Nils; Guedes Auditor, Jean (2021):

Affluent Lives Beyond the Border? Individual Wage Change Through Migration.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 121–138.

Witte, Nils; Pollak, Reinhard; Ette, Andreas (2021):

Social Origins of German Emigrants: Maintaining Social Status Through International Mobility?

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 139–153.

Stawarz, Nico; Ette, Andreas; Rüger, Heiko (2021):

Healthy Migrants? Comparing Subjective Health of German Emigrants, Remigrants, and Non-Migrants.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 205–225.

Décieux, Jean Philippe; Mörchen, Luisa (2021):

Emigration, Friends, and Social Integration: The Determinants and Development of Friendship Network Size after Arrival.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 247–264.

Décieux, Jean Philippe; Murdock, Elke (2021):

Sense of Belonging: Predictors for Host Country Attachment Among Emigrants.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 265–285.

Genoni, Andreas; Décieux, Jean Philippe; Ette, Andreas; Witte, Nils (2021):

Setting up Probability-Based Online Panels of Migrants with a Push-to-Web Approach: Lessons Learned from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS).

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 289–307.

Décieux, Jean Philippe (2021):

Is There More Than the Answer to the Question? Device Use and Completion Time as Indicators for Selectivity Bias and Response Convenience in Online Surveys. The potentials of paradata analysis within GERPS.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 309–324.

Ette, Andreas; Witte, Nils (2021):

Brain Drain or Brain Circulation? Economic and Non-Economic Factors Driving the International Migration of German Citizens.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 65–83.

Ette, Andreas; Erlinghagen, Marcel (2021):

Structures of German Emigration and Remigration: Historical Developments and Demographic Patterns.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 43–63.

Ette, Andreas; Décieux, Jean Philippe; Erlinghagen, Marcel; Guedes Auditor, Jean; Sander, Nikola; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (2021):

Surveying Across Borders: The Experiences of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 21–39.

Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (2021):

Between Origin and Destination: German Migrants and the Individual Consequences of Their Global Lives.

In: Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (Eds.): The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course. IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer: 3–20.

Décieux, Jean Philippe (2021):

Personality Traits and Self-Perceived Development of Friendship in the Course of Migration.

In: Altmann, Tobias (Ed.): Friendship in Cultural and Personality Psychology: International Perspectives. Social Psychology Research Progress. : Nova Press: 361–384.

Décieux, Jean Philippe; Witte, Nils; Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Genoni, Andreas; Guedes Auditor, Jean; Knirsch, Frederik; Kühne, Simon; Mansfeld, Lisa; Schneider, Norbert F. (2021):

German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS): Documentation of the Second Wave.

BiB Daten- und Methodenberichte 2/2021. Wiesbaden: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung.

Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (2021):

The Global Lives of German Migrants. Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course.

IMISCOE Research Series. Cham: Springer.

Erlinghagen, Marcel (2021):

The transnational life course: an integrated and unified theoretical concept for migration research.

Ethnic and Racial Studies. London: Taylor & Francis Online.

Décieux, Jean Philippe; Mergener, Alexandra (2021):

German Labor Emigration in Times of Technological Change: Occupational Characteristics and Geographical Patterns.

Sustainability 13(3), 1219. : MDPI.

Erlinghagen, Marcel (2020):

Love in motion: Migration patterns of internationally mobile couples.

Population, Space and Place (online). : John Wiley & Sons.

Ette, Andreas; Décieux, Jean Philippe; Erlinghagen, Marcel; Genoni, Andreas; Guedes Auditor, Jean; Knirsch, Frederik; Kühne, Simon; Mörchen, Luisa; Sand, Matthias; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (2020):

German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS): Methodology and Data Manual of the Baseline Survey (Wave 1).

BiB Daten- und Methodenberichte 1/2020. Wiesbaden: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung.

Ette, Andreas; Décieux, Jean; Erlinghagen, Marcel; Guedes Auditor, Jean; Mansfeld, Lisa; Sander, Nikola; Schneider, Norbert F.; Witte, Nils (2019):

German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS). Neue GERPS-Daten über deutsche Aus- und Rückwandernde.

Bevölkerungsforschung Aktuell 6/2019: 3–7.

Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (Ed.) (2019):

Gewinner der Globalisierung. Individuelle Konsequenzen von Auslandsaufenthalten und internationaler Mobilität.

Policy Brief, Dezember 2019.

Erlinghagen, Marcel; Ette, Andreas; Schneider, Norbert; Witte, Nils; Décieux, Jean Philippe (2019):

Internationale Migration zwischen hochentwickelten Staaten und ihre Konsequenzen für den Lebensverlauf.

In: Burzan, Nicole (Ed.): Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen. Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018. Göttingen.

Lauterbach, Wolfgang; Ette, Andreas; Waibel, Stine (2017):

Transnationale Bildungswanderungen zur Höherqualifizierung.

In: Schlemmer, Elisabeth; Lange, Andreas; Kuld, Lothar (Eds.): Handbuch Jugend im demografischen Wandel. Weinheim: Beltz: 188–208 .

Waibel, Stine; Rüger, Heiko; Ette, Andreas; Sauer, Lenore (2017):

Career consequences of transnational educational mobility. A systematic literature review.

Educational Research Review 20: 81–98.

Erlinghagen, Marcel (2016):

Anticipation of Life Satisfaction Before Emigration. Evidence from German Panel Data.

In: Tachibanaki, Toshiaki (Ed.): Advances in Happiness Research. A Comparative Perspective. Tokyo et al.: Springer: 229–244.

Ette, Andreas; Sauer, Lenore; Scheller, Friedrich; Bekalarczyk, Dawid; Erlinghagen, Marcel; Engler, Marcus; Schneider, Jan; Schultz, Caroline (2015):

International Mobil. Dokumentation der Befragung von Auswanderern und Rückwanderern aus Deutschland.

BiB Daten- und Methodenberichte 1/2015. Wiesbaden: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung.

Forschungsbereich beim Sachverständigenrat deutscher Stiftungen für Integration und Migration; Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung; Lehrstuhl für Empirische Sozialstrukturanalyse an der Universität Duisburg-Essen (Eds.) (2015):

International Mobil. Motive, Rahmenbedingungen und Folgen der Aus- und Rückwanderung deutscher Staatsbürger.

Studie des SVR-Forschungsbereichs 2015-1. Berlin.

Erlinghagen, Marcel (2011):

Nowhere Better Than Here? The Subjective Well-Being of German Emigrants and Remigrants.

Comparative Population Studies 36(4): 899–926.

Ette, Andreas; Sauer, Lenore (2010):

Auswanderung aus Deutschland. Daten und Analysen zur internationalen Migration deutscher Staatsbürger.

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

Erlinghagen, Marcel; Stegmann, Tim; Wagner, Gert G. (2009):

Deutschland ein Auswanderungsland?

DIW Wochenbericht 76: 663–669.