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 …

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

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

immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with … otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills … gap. Immigrants are initially less likely to participate in the labor market and more likely to be unemployed. While …

for less-skilled persons and for individuals with longer unemployment experiences. Low-paid work is less beneficial if the …

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 …

most neighbors are immigrants from other countries of origin. The results suggest that housing discrimination rather than …Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated … residential areas are more likely to report discrimination because of their ethnic background. This applies to both segregated …