Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants
Christian Dustmann,
Hyejin Ku and
Tetyana Surovtseva (tsurovtseva@ub.edu)
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Tetyana Surovtseva: University of Barcelona
No 16390, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Abstract:
We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but subsequently catch up to those arriving with less favourable exchange rates, through transition to better-paying occupations and firms. Similar patterns hold in the US data. Our analysis offers one explanation for the widespread phenomenon of immigrants' downgrading, with new implications for immigrant cohort effects and assimilation profiles.
Keywords: immigrant downgrading; reservation wage; real exchange rate; earnings assimilation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 J61 O15 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2023-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-int, nep-lab, nep-opm and nep-ure
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Published - published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 171 - 294
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