and labor migrants of the same arrival cohort. The analysis shows that refugees take significantly longer to enter their …This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 2003 and 2009. Belgium has … offered relatively easy formal labor market access to refugees but they face many other barriers in its strongly regulated and …

immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …

attrition and missing wages are also addressed. Using German household panel surveys from 1984 to 2014 and home country …

Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories …, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter …

Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories …, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … be traced back to time-varying observable characteristics. Migrants increase their wages over time mainly by changing … migrants compared to native Germans by generating predictions and by averaging them by year. This approach allows to decompose …

This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational …

examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …