Using a large new data set, we analyse the labour market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous … work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of natives, we match the data also with an equivalent …

workers are treated as a fixed factor of production since the strong reliance on skill certification in Germany inhibits … mobility and shelters from competition. Unskilled workers, in contrast, receive competitive wages. Using data from the German …. I find that university graduates' wages increase, and the wages of workers without post-secondary degrees decrease, as …

This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational …

1976. I find that regional wages decline between 1962 and 1968, before returning to their pre-shock level 15 years after …. While regional wages recovered, this particular supply shock had persistent distributional effects. By increasing the …

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …