Table 4 OLS—Estimated returns to education—Immigrants.

Years of education

0.057***

0.053***

0.060***

0.062***

(0.002)

(0.002)

(0.003)

(0.003)

Years of education in Germany

0.023***

0.026***

(0.004)

(0.003)

Years of education abroad (adjusted)

0.002

0.014***

(0.002)

(0.003)

Experience

0.018***

0.020***

0.016***

(0.002)

(0.003)

(0.002)

(Experience-squared)/100

\(-\) 0.030***

\(-\) 0.030***

\(-\) 0.029***

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

Male

0.234***

0.199***

0.235***

0.177***

0.234***

0.217***

(0.009)

(0.010)

(0.016)

(0.018)

(0.012)

(0.012)

Age

0.042***

0.026***

0.050***

0.039***

0.037***

0.015***

(0.003)

(0.003)

(0.005)

(0.014)

(0.004)

(0.004)

(Age-squared)/100

\(-\) 0.043***

\(-\) 0.032***

\(-\) 0.051***

\(-\) 0.063***

\(-\) 0.038***

\(-\) 0.022***

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

(0.001)

Married

0.033***

0.023

0.030**

(0.010)

(0.014)

(0.013)

Year since migration

0.002*

\(-\) 0.004

0.006***

(0.001)

(0.014)

(0.002)

(Years since migration-squared)/100

0.002

0.002

\(-\)0.005

(0.003)

(0.003)

(0.006)

Good German language skills

0.052***

0.075

0.081***

(0.009)

(0.047)

(0.010)

Constant

0.948***

0.907***

0.675***

0.577***

1.515***

1.447***

(0.056)

(0.059)

(0.098)

(0.111)

(0.078)

(0.076)

Person–year observations

36,802

36,802

14,002

14,002

22,800

22,800

R-squared

0.236

0.336

0.278

0.366

0.171

0.291