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This paper analyses the immigrant-native wage gap and incorporates cognitive skills to approximate an individual human capital profile. Based on data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) for 15 European countries, we document that on average...
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migration for individuals with low cognitive skills, implying a strong positive selection of less educated migrants with respect … sorting of migrants across destinations, whereas adaptability has no significant effect on sorting. This evidence suggests …
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German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate. Our analysis shows that a large part of the decline in unemployment was structural. Micro-founded Phillips curves fit the German data rather...
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penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … data, the panel approach addresses individual heterogeneity effects (motivation, ability, and compensating differentials … effects. Second, based on panel fixed effects analyses there is no penalty for overeducation for ESB immigrants. However, NESB …
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