Abstract This paper updates and deepens our understanding of the wage performance of immigrants in Germany. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, it documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20% less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills, and with a German degree, and larger for others. The gap declines gradually over time but at a decreasing rate and much faster for more recent cohorts. Less success in obtaining jobs with higher occupational autonomy explains half of the wage gap.

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德国移民的工资表现

摘要本文更新并加深了我们对德国移民工资表现的理解。它使用德国社会经济专家小组的文件证明，移民工人最初的收入比具有其他特征的本地工人平均低20％。对于具有良好德语水平和德语学位的发达国家移民而言，差距较小。差距随着时间的推移逐渐减小，但下降的速度越来越快，而对于最近的同类人群则要快得多。拥有较高职业自主权的工作获得的成功较少，说明了工资差距的一半。