Muslim Life in Germany - Deutsche Islam Konferenz

222 Aspects of Integration
The identified structures also reveal how the choice of
occupation is gender-specific. Women are more likely to be
employed in the service sector, as a result of which the proportion
of white-collar workers is much higher among both
native women and female migrants than among men (Haug
2002: 134). In the second generation in particular, more than
half of gainfully employed women are white-collar workers
(Stichs 2008: 41). A similar picture applies to migrants from predominantly
Muslim countries of origin. Overall, 45 per cent of
women are white-collar workers, but only 29 per cent of men.
Men are more likely to be self-employed, however (18 per cent,
as compared to 6 per cent for women).
A high proportion of blue-collar workers would be expected
above all among migrants from the recruitment countries
Turkey, Southeast Europe (former Yugoslavia) and North
Africa (Morocco, Algeria). While this is indeed the case, the
highest proportion of blue-collar workers is to be found among
the more recent group of migrants from Central Asia/CIS.
Civil servants are only to be found among non-Muslim
migrants from South/Southeast Asia (3 per cent) and migrants
from the Middle East (3 per cent). Otherwise, the particularly
high proportion of self-employed persons is striking, especially
among migrants from Iran, South/Southeast Asia and the Middle
East and among non-Muslims from Turkey and North Africa
(though due caution is to be exercised when interpreting the
latter instances, on account of the small number of cases covered).
The self-employed include doctors and lawyers as well as
greengrocers and restaurateurs (see analyses according to level
of education below).