The difference between wages and wage potentials: Earnings disadvantages of immigrants in Germany

Journal of Economic Inequality

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-42

  Lang, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Human capital; Immigration; Imported skills; Stochastic wage frontier; Wage gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 21044442844     PISSN: 15691721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-004-7581-4     Document Type: Article

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