perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as … the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006 in order to investigate the economic performance of immigrants. We … reflected by their earnings. Further we take the heterogeneity of immigrants into account by separating them by country of …

perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as … the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006 in order to investigate the economic performance of immigrants. We … reflected by their earnings. Further we take the heterogeneity of immigrants into account by separating them by country of …

, overall, education and in particular labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive … human capital of immigrants across countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor … in explaining the wage differential between natives and immigrants. …

Using a rich panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany as an example of a key …. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants' experience earnings profiles are flatter on average, although clear … offsetting the diverging trend in the experience earnings profiles. Still, wage differences between natives and immigrants remain …

Using a rich panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany as an example of a key …. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants' experience earnings profiles are flatter on average, although clear … offsetting the diverging trend in the experience earnings profiles. Still, wage differences between natives and immigrants remain …

, overall, education and in particular labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive … human capital of immigrants across countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor … in explaining the wage differential between natives and immigrants. …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated … areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same country of origin as the surveyed person and segregated areas where … most neighbors are immigrants from other countries of origin. The results suggest that housing discrimination rather than …