This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that … their first 15 years in the host country they manage to close a considerable part of this gap, though assimilation is only … market. We also find that wage assimilation is significantly accelerated for immigrants with a higher pre-migration wage. Our …

identification of smaller ethnic clusters and thus a more precise estimation of its effects. This is achieved by including …

We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland …, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different … immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. While OLS estimates suggest that immigrants …