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

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))

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Anger, S., Bassetto, J. & Sandner, M. (2022): Making Integration Work? Facilitating Access to Occupational Recognition and Immigrants’ Labor Market Performance. (IAB-Discussion Paper 11/2022), Nürnberg, 72 p. DOI:10.48720/IAB.DP.2211