Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus … in Germany. Differences in educational and demographic characteristics explain how those gaps vary across groups, and why …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage …

workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …

-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …

to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to …

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an … by the Italian Embassy in Germany. In line with previous studies, we confirm substantial inequality of educational … achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high …

employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. The authors use … years after the reform, the wages of employees in deregulated crafts increased by five percent less than wages of employees …

We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany …. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding … West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage inequality is no longer rising in Germany and has even been declining …

also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the … ethnic compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents' destination countries. This … paper presents and discusses comparative evidence on the performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in these …