The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reportred in December 2017 that, regarding several central integration indicators (e.g. unemployment rate, "working poor" rate), the differences between people with and without a migrant background have remained nearly unchanged since 2005. The integration indicators are part of the regular integration reports of the German Federal Government.
Both workers with and without a migration background profit greatly from the current German economy, leading to a tangibly diminished unemployment rate (7,1%) for people with a migration background. This constitutes a steep decrease of more than 10% since 2005, when the rate was 17,9%. Compared to those without a migration background, however, the labour market chances of people with a migration background remain worse. The employment gap between people with and without a migration background has stayed largely unchanged between 2005 (11,6%) and 2016 (12,7%). Also, the rate of "working poor" amongst people with a migration background, designating those workers that are at risk of poverty, has lingered around 13% (cf. people without a migration background: 6,2%).
