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 …

Using the panel data from 1995 to 2019, this paper investigates the labor market integration of non-EU immigrants in … Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a … heterogeneous group in terms of their motives for migration and skills composition. In this paper, I disentangle immigrants into …

This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data … from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the … host and home country have higher employment rates, while those who exclusively identify with the host country culture do …

This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data … from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the … host and home country have higher employment rates, while those who exclusively identify with the host country culture do …

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …

employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study … the amount of time since immigration. Recent immigrants have the lowest chance of reporting most of the studied measures … of active labor market policies. For immigrants having stayed more than 4 years in Germany, however, we do not find a …

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …

This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … immigrants are differences in marital behavior as well as language abilities, ethnic identification and religious distribution. A …. These indicators are also presented. All of these indicators are depicted in comparison between natives and immigrants …

moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants. …

moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants …