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Title: Portuguese Migrants in the German Labour Market: Performance and Self-Selection

Author(s): Thomas Bauer, Pedro Telhado Pereira, Michael Vogler and Klaus F Zimmermann

Publication Date: December 1998

Keyword(s): labour market performance of migrants, Migration Policy, Portuguese Migration and self-selection of migrants

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: Using a large new data set, we analyse the labour market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of 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 guest worker system.

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Bauer, T, Pereira, P, Vogler, M and Zimmermann, K. 1998. 'Portuguese Migrants in the German Labour Market: Performance and Self-Selection'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=2047