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 …

This paper uses the immigration sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel to analyse the earnings and unemployment … earnings differential between immigrants from Eastern Europe and comparable East Germans at the time of immigration. With … Poland and the former USSR have higher unemployment risks than those from East Germany or Romania. Ethnic networks are shown …

In this paper, we analyse an equilibrium search model with three sources for wage and unemployment differentials among … intensities and discrimination (Becker 1957) due to an appearance-based employer disutility factor. Because these sources affect … and unemployment differentials is possible. We show that the structural parameters of the model, including the firm …

, overall, education and in particular labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive … human capital of immigrants across countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor … in explaining the wage differential between natives and immigrants. …

This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …

contract interpretation, while US regional labour markets are characterized by high regional mobility, rendering insurance less …

employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage … inequality between skill groups for Germans relative to immigrants. The returns to skill for the highest educational attainment … are higher for Germans across the wage distribution compared to immigrants. But within-group inequality for the group with …

Survey (SLFS). The earnings difference decomposition between natives and immigrants reveals that the discrimination effect …Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in …-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to …