The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that …

its in-migrants. A higher employment inequality in Eastern as compared to Western Germany may, thus, be the missing link …, then, reflect both regional pay and employment differentials. In such a context, migrants tend to move to regions that best … to explain the fact that East-West migrants tend to be rather unskilled. …

, especially in the high skill segment. Our results show that recent immigration to Germany, including refugees, has a moderate … estimated at +1.6%. Finally, we observe that productive capacities of immigrant workers are underutilized in Germany and a …

job mobility of migrants and natives in Germany and distinguish among voluntary, involuntary, internal and other job …Theoretically, wage gaps between migrants and natives can be explained by human capital theory through either …, an unexplained difference remains. We assume that differences in the employment trajectories of migrants and natives …