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 …

We investigate whether Germans immigrants to the US work in higher-status occupations than they would have had they …

, 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 …