‘With a little help from my educated friends’: revisiting the role of social capital for immigrants’ labour market integration in Germany

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 1 Distribution of dependent variables

	Employment status		Occupational status
	Range	Mean/%	Range	Mean/%
Labour market outcome
Employment /occupational status t₀	0–1	71.4% (0.025)	16–88	40.62 (1.111)
Social capital
Inter-ethnic contact t₀	0–3	1.310 (0.071)	0–3	1.311 (0.092)
Intra-ethnic contact t₀	0–3	1.253 (0.069)	0–3	1.205 (0.091)
High-position contact t₀	0–3	0.695 (0.055)	0–3	0.663 (0.070)
N	299		184