capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … signifiantly lower returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to …

the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the …