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 …

mobility in the world, closes the gap. Instrumental variable estimation and careful robustness checks suggest that identifying …

This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the … whether assimilation or disruption effects dominate immigrants' fertility after migration. We find evidence in favor of the … assimilation model according to which immigrant fertility converges to native levels over time. In addition, we confirm the …

assimilation – two processes that have been assumed to be independent in the existing literature. The JHL model accounts for the … intercepts with individual rates of wage assimilation. Commonly ignored sample selection issues due to non-random survey …-level data from 1961, we find large upward bias in the OLS-estimated average rate of wage assimilation. Our estimates suggest …