Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … jobs for migrants and natives. Firms differ in the ability to employ migrants which gives rise to wage differences between … natives and migrants. Therefore firms with a higher share of migrants realize wage cost advantages. In the long run …

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …

and natives. This gives rise to wage differences between natives and migrants. As a consequence, firms with a higher share … of migrants realize wage cost advantages. The heterogeneous distribution of migrants in our model fosters regional … the market are those which are highly productive or able to compensate a lower productivity level through wage cost …

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … wage differences between natives and migrants. This wage differences lead to wage cost advantages for firms. In the long … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …

and natives. This gives rise to wage differences between natives and migrants. As a consequence, firms with a higher share … of migrants realize wage cost advantages. The heterogeneous distribution of migrants in our model fosters regional … the market are those which are highly productive or able to compensate a lower productivity level through wage cost …

and natives. This gives rise to wage differences between natives and migrants. As a consequence, firms with a higher share … of migrants realize wage cost advantages. The heterogeneous distribution of migrants in our model fosters regional … the market are those which are highly productive or able to compensate a lower productivity level through wage cost …

levels and imperfect substitutability between migrants and natives. This gives rise to wage differences between natives and … migrants. As a consequence firms with a higher share of migrants realize wage cost advantages. The heterogeneous distribution … highly productive or are able to compensate a lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. By modeling this process, we …