, 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. …

. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants' experience earnings profiles are flatter on average, although clear … offsetting the diverging trend in the experience earnings profiles. Still, wage differences between natives and immigrants remain …Using a rich panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany as an example of a key …

immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with … otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills … gap. Immigrants are initially less likely to participate in the labor market and more likely to be unemployed. While …

this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for …

earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a …

reflected by their earnings. Further we take the heterogeneity of immigrants into account by separating them by country of … the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006 in order to investigate the economic performance of immigrants. We … perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as …

: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first … proportion of union members are clearly associated with long-term changes in the remuneration of occupations. …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …