immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and southeast Europe, who arrived in Germany mainly in the 1970s to fill … entrepreneurs. Firms owned exclusively by immigrants tend to be smaller and have higher exit rates. After controlling for resources …

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …

immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and … effects are more adverse for natives, but the program does not help otherwise identical immigrants to leave the welfare system … immigrants. …

cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using …

participation decision through different individual preferences from the indirect effects through wages. We can show that …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals choosing these subjects might differ systematically in unobserved … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …

elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …