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provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …. However, in a few specific cases, we find that migrants from a particular province earn significantly less than those from …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of 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...
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immigration depressed annual wages and annual weeks worked for native German citizens. The results indicate that a 10 percent rise … of the share of immigrants in the workforce would in general reduce wages of native German citizens by about 3 percent … and decrease wages of incumbent foreigners by about 9 percent. Across the different model specifications the negative …
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This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...
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