TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bauer, Thomas K.
AU  - Pereira, Pedro T.
AU  - Vogler, Michael
AU  - Zimmermann, Klaus F.
        TI  - Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection
        PY  - 1998/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 20
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp20
        AB  - 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
        KW  - self.selection of migrants
KW  - migration policy
KW  - portuguese migration
KW  - labor market performance of migrants
        ER  -