Brücker, HerbertGlitz, Albrecht Christian Ekkehard, 1978-Lerche, AdrianRomiti, Agnese2025-05-302025-05-302021Brücker H, Glitz A, Lerche A, Romiti A. Occupational recognition and immigrant labor market outcomes. J Labor Econ. 2021;39(2):497-525. DOI: /10.1086/7107020734-306Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/70579In this paper, we analyze how the formal recognition of immigrants' foreign occupational qualifications affects their subsequent labor market outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on a novel German data set that links respondents' survey information to their administrative records, allowing us to observe immigrants at monthly intervals before, during and after their application for occupational recognition. Our findings show substantial employment and wage gains from occupational recognition. After three years, the full recognition of immigrants' foreign qualifications increases their employment rates by 24.5 percentage points and raises their hourly wages by 19.8 percent relative to immigrants without recognition. We show that the increase in employment is largely driven by a higher propensity to work in regulated occupations. Relating our findings to the economic assimilation of immigrants in Germany, we further document that occupational recognition leads to substantially faster convergence of immigrants' earnings to those of their native counterpartsapplication/pdfeng© University of Chicago Press http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ET/home.html If a shorter embargo period is required by government or funding body mandate, only the final accepted version of the manuscript may be released. Can I include my published article in an official institutional repository? You may place your published article in a non-commercial data repository maintained by an institution of which you are a member provided you meet all relevant conditions described in these Guidelines and in the editorial office's communications with you. An institutional repository as distinguished from your personal or departmental web site is designed for the systematic storage retrieval and delivery of scholarly material. Your article may be made publicly available after the appropriate embargo period* has been observed. You are responsible for informing the manager of the institutional repository of the embargo period that must be observed. Please also note the comments elsewhere in these Guidelines regarding prior publication and anonymous peer review and the use of copyrighted material in your article. *The embargo period is 3 years after publication for Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and 12 months for all other journals.Mercat de treballEconomia del treballImmigrantsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article2025-05-30http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/710702info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess