Oliver Himmler|Robert Jäckle
Literacy and the Migrant–Native Wage Gap
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics|Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg
able read write one important skills modern economies literacy frequently prerequisite employment relevance productivity wages magnified fact literacy many skills become usable natives argument applies migrants even high levels human capital acquired country origin often rendered worthless absence literacy hostcountry language using novel data largescale german adult literacy test leolevelone studie leo investigate determinants literacy show migrants systematically lower language skills natives find observed raw employment wage gaps natives migrants fully explained differences