immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labour markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

job mobility of migrants and natives in Germany and distinguish among voluntary, involuntary, internal and other job …Theoretisch lassen sich Lohnunterschiede zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen mithilfe der Humankapitaltheorie erklären … Berücksichtigung von Humankapital-Variablen meist ein unerklärter Lohnunterschied zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen. Wir benutzen …

for these groups suggest that family-related preferences, employer discrimination, and institutional settings matter for … unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

In this article, I study the effect of worker heterogeneities on wages and unemployment within the context of a …

We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare …

Using new and unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, I examine the extent to which immigrants sort into … worse-paying establishments and worse job positions within establishments. The results demonstrate that recent immigrants … find that immigrants are employed in lower hierarchical positions. Both the non-random sorting across establishments and …

immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile … immigrants. The decomposition results clearly indicate a significant growing gap with higher wages for both foreigners (13.6 to … 17.6 %) and naturalised immigrants (10.0 to 16.4 %). The findings further display a low explanation for the wage gap in …