Does higher education help immigrants find a job?: A survival analysis

Andrea Brück-Klingberg, Carola Burkert, Alfred Garloff, Holger Seibert and Rüdiger Wapler
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Andrea Brück-Klingberg: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Carola Burkert: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Alfred Garloff: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Holger Seibert: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Rüdiger Wapler: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 201106, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but different migration backgrounds. In the second case, the migration background is similar, but labour market access is not. We find that Ethnic Germans fare better than foreigners because more of them are able to accredit their foreign degrees and hence can apply for a job as a medium- or high-skilled individual which both have faster transition rates than the low-skilled. However, both foreigners and Ethnic Germans with accredited degrees have similar transition rates. Finally, if education signals are acquired in Germany, the differences between all three groups vanish more or less completely." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Aussiedler; Aussiedlerpolitik; berufliche Reintegration; Bildungsabschluss; Deutscher; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; Migranten; Anerkennung; Arbeitsmarktchancen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2011
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