Flat Experience Curve Profiles of Foreign Employees in Germany

Abstract This paper sheds light on the wage structure of foreign and German employees who are subject to social security contributions in fulltime employment and focuses on the experience structure. Existing evidence suggests that additional labour market experience is rewarded less for migrants tha...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2adb9d09f1954409aa52db8d8c51bc972021-11-21T12:29:03ZFlat Experience Curve Profiles of Foreign Employees in Germany10.1007/s10273-021-3047-60043-62751613-978Xhttps://doaj.org/article/2adb9d09f1954409aa52db8d8c51bc972021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-021-3047-6https://doaj.org/toc/0043-6275https://doaj.org/toc/1613-978XAbstract This paper sheds light on the wage structure of foreign and German employees who are subject to social security contributions in fulltime employment and focuses on the experience structure. Existing evidence suggests that additional labour market experience is rewarded less for migrants than for their German counterparts. We identify and discuss reasons and explanations for migrants’ flat experience curves, which is particularly important in the light of the debate on inequality between both groups. These explanations include: the recognition of vocational training degrees, the successful passing of vocational training in Germany, German citizenship by naturalisation, and the labour market experience. After ten to 15 years in the German labour market, we identify convergence in the returns to labour market experience.Stephan BrunowOskar JostSpringerarticleEconomic theory. DemographyHB1-3840Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reformHN1-995DEWirtschaftsdienst, Vol 101, Iss 11, Pp 889-893 (2021)
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topic Economic theory. Demography
HB1-3840
Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
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spellingShingle Economic theory. Demography
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Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
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Stephan Brunow
Oskar Jost
Flat Experience Curve Profiles of Foreign Employees in Germany
description Abstract This paper sheds light on the wage structure of foreign and German employees who are subject to social security contributions in fulltime employment and focuses on the experience structure. Existing evidence suggests that additional labour market experience is rewarded less for migrants than for their German counterparts. We identify and discuss reasons and explanations for migrants’ flat experience curves, which is particularly important in the light of the debate on inequality between both groups. These explanations include: the recognition of vocational training degrees, the successful passing of vocational training in Germany, German citizenship by naturalisation, and the labour market experience. After ten to 15 years in the German labour market, we identify convergence in the returns to labour market experience.
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