Reservation wages of first- and second-generation migrants

Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann ()

No 2016-050, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: We analyse the reservation wages of first- and second-generation migrants, based on rich survey data of the unemployed in Germany. Our results confirm the hypothesis that reservation wages increase over migrant generations and over time, suggesting that the mobility benefit of immigration may be limited in time.

Keywords: Migration; Unemployment; Job Search; Reservation Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09-14
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-ltv, nep-mig and nep-ure
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