Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far … below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the … examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German …

precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants … immigrants' chances of holding temporary contracts. A stricter regulation of temporary contracts increases immigrants' risk of …

This paper investigates determinants and wage effects of educational mismatch for both natives and immigrants in … Germany. Using the GSOEP panel data from 1991 to 2013, I find that conditional on educational attainment immigrants face a … higher incidence of overeducation compared to their native counterparts. Among immigrants German language skills as well as …

training. Finally, we show that other poor labor market outcomes of visible minority immigrants, including their wages and … use longitudinal Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether white/visible minority immigrants and Canadian … minority immigrants are significantly less likely to receive classroom training, and receive fewer and shorter classroom …

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …