, 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 …

convergence of immigrants’ earnings to those of their native counterparts. …In this paper, we analyze how the formal recognition of immigrants' foreign occupational qualifications afects their … information to their administrative records, allowing us to observe immigrants at monthly intervals before, during and after their …

-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated …

: 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. …

In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper … remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and … an entirely female occupation entails a loss in individual earnings of twelve percent in Britain, six percent in …