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1 Introduction 1.1 Motivation 1.2 A short history of immigration to Germany 1.3 Contents of the three essays 1.4 Data basis 1.5 Structure of the thesis

2 Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrantnative wage gap: A longitudinal analysis of the German labor market 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Theoretical background and previous literature 2.3 Analytical approach 2.4 Results 2.5 Robustness checks 2.6 Conclusion

3 Does personality matter? The impact of the Big Five on the migrant and gender wage gaps . 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Related empirical literature 3.3 Research questions and derived hypotheses 3.4 Data and methods 3.6 Results 3.7 Robustness checks 3.8 Concluding remarks

4 Labor market integration of migrants: Are family migrants worse off? 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Migration and family status 4.3 Data and methodology 4.4 Descriptive statistics 4.5 Multivariate results 4.6 Robustness checks 4.7 Conclusion

Conclusion and Outlook 5.1 Main findings 5.2 Limitations and further research 5.3 Policy implications

Bibliography A Supplements: Job mobility B Supplements: Does personality matter? C Supplements: Are family migrants worse off? Abstract Kurzfassung