@techreport{Bauer1998Portuguese,
abstract = {Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese
workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of
migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent survey
from the sending country. We find that Portuguese migrants as a whole are negatively
selected with the exception of blue-collar workers that are the greatest group among
them. The observation that Portuguese migrants earn more than comparable Germans
indicates that they have higher unobservable skills. Our results confirm the
effectiveness of the German guestworker system},
author = {Thomas K. Bauer and Pedro Telhado Pereira and Michael Vogler and Klaus F. Zimmermann},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J61; F22; 330; Portuguese migration; self-selection of migrants; labor market performance of migrants; migration policy; Internationale Arbeitsmobilit\"{a}t; Portugiesen; Arbeitsangebot; Lohn; Humankapital; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {20},
title = {Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20863},
year = {1998}
}
