Date of Award
12-2014
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Legacy Department
Economics
Committee Chair/Advisor
Tamura, Robert
Committee Member
Sauer , Raymond
Committee Member
Baier , Scott
Committee Member
Ivankovic , Miren
Abstract
The first chapter of this dissertation is using data from the German SOEP panel, and I analyze the assimilation of immigrants in terms of initial wage gap and assimilation rate. The analysis consists of a basic assimilation model, a cohort model, and a source country specific model. The source country specific model allows us to distinguish assimilation rates for different groups of immigrants. I find that despite having the highest education of all immigrants, East European immigrants have the largest wage gap. Secondly individuals immigrating from former East Germany have a larger wage gap than immigrants from Italy and Turkey. For East Germans I find little evidence of assimilation. In the second chapter of this dissertation is using data from the German SOEP panel, and I analyze the assimilation for immigrants in terms of initial wage gap and assimilation rate under self-selection. This paper extends the first paper by taking employment probabilities into account during the estimation process. I find that initial wage gaps in general are larger but also relative orderings between different countries of origin are different. A negative and significant lambda leads me to believe that a self-selection problem was present and was corrected by a Heckman self-selection model applied in the analysis section of this paper.
Recommended Citation
Schiebler, Jan, "Assimilation of foreigners in Germany" (2014). All Dissertations. 1465.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/1465