about the same distance to the frontier. Assuming a half-normal distribution of the wage-inefficiency term, both groups … natives and immigrants relative to the frontier, the wage discrimination hypothesis is rejected. Actually, human capital … well as from Turkey are steeper than the respective frontier of natives, which supports the assimilation hypothesis. No …

. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially …-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …, black immigrants do not obtain wage assimilation equal to native-born non-Hispanic white male workers. …

and 2000 show significant differences in the assimilation processes between nationalities. We examine the sources of wage … assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … percent in 2008. According to the decomposition results this wage assimilation of 10 percentage points can almost completely …

panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation … and employment participation. Empirical evidence favors the "efficiency" over the "discrimination" channels of wage …

capital approach and allows for detecting discrimination as well as assimilation processes. The empirical results im-ply that … individually diverging efficiency ratios are not well understood, with discrimination only found for ethnic Germans from Eastern … Europe. Somewhat disappointing, the assimilation hypothesis was clearly rejected for all migrants with again the exception …

-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … (SLFS). The decomposition of the earnings differential reveals that the discrimination effect plays a more important role in …