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Table 38: Dependence of interviewees with migrant background on
transfer payments according to school-leaving qualification
acquired in Germany (in per cent); interviewees were able to
state several sources
Total
Income from employment/
selfemployment
Fully dependent on transfer
payments
Male
Income from employment/
selfemployment
Fully dependent on transfer
payments
Female
Income from employment/
selfemployment
Fully dependent on transfer
payments
No school-
leaving
qualification
Secondary
modern
school-
leaving qualification
Intermedia- Higher educate
school- tion
leaving entrance
qualifica- level
tion qualification
Total
87,4 85,9 92,0 80,1 86,2
12,6 14,1 8,0 19,9 13,8
100,0 100,0 100,0 100,0 100,0
91,9 87,0 91,2 86,8 88,8
8,1 13,0 8,8 13,2 11,2
100,0 100,0 100,0 100,0 100,0
81,6 85,0 92,8 70,2 83,3
18,4 15,0 7,2 29,8 16,7
100,0 100,0 100,0 100,0 100,0
Source: MLG 2008, dataset of interviewees aged 16 and over, weighted.
Unweighted number of cases: 1,664 (persons educated in Germany only);
Transfer payments: (Early retirement) pension, unempl. ben. I, II,
child allowance, other transfer payments.
It is evident that the majority of the surveyed migrants
from predominantly Muslim countries of origin dispose of
earned income of their own. At the same time, a relatively large
proportion is reliant on transfer payments, whereby persons
with a high standard of school education are not necessarily
assured of their own income. Transfer payments thus constitute
an important source of income for households, in particular
unemployment benefit II.