Making Integration Work? Facilitating Access to Occupational Recognition and Immigrants’ Labor Market Performance

Silke Anger (), Jacopo Bassetto () and Malte Sandner
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Silke Anger: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany ; Univ. Bamberg ; IZA
Jacopo Bassetto: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany ; University of Trento

No 202211, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "This paper exploits a reform that facilitated the recognition of foreign occupational qualifications for non-EU immigrants in Germany. Using detailed administrative social security and survey data in a difference-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the share of non-EU immigrants with occupational recognition by 5 percentage points, raising their employment in regulated occupations (e.g., nurses) by 18.6 percent after the reform. Moreover, despite the large inflow of non-EU immigrants in regulated occupations, we find no evidence that these immigrants had lower skills or that they received lower wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; IAB-Open-Access-Publikation; Auswirkungen; berufliche Integration; berufliche Qualifikation; EU-Bürger; Drittstaatsangehörige; Berufsgruppe; Einkommenseffekte; Einwanderer; Einwanderung; Inanspruchnahme; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; Anerkennung; Berufsqualifikationsfeststellungsgesetz; IAB-SOEP-Migrationsstichprobe; 2007-2017 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J24 J31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 72 pages
Date: 2022-05-23
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DOI: 10.48720/IAB.DP.2211

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