Median monthly income by nationality(immigrant group) in Germany [OC]

Source: https://www.iwkoeln.de/studien/axel-pluennecke-inder-nordeuropaeer-und-oesterreicher-verdienen-in-deutschland-am-meisten.html
Made using matplotlib .

Because the best ones in their fields usually leave for the west. This doesn’t mean every indian is good. It just shows the brain drain

Do you have data for the income by nationality for nationalities making less than average. It is a bit strange to see the “all foreigners” group make less money than each of the individual foreigners listed

Since I am a personality-focused psychologist (that’s my hammer, so everything looks like such a nail!), I would see what personality factors affect income. So just for fun, I’m going to do an unnecessary deconstruction of common sense.

One obvious interpretation is that moving to and working in any other country requires something of the individual personality that also makes the person more productive. The following are conservative estimates of big-5 personality traits on earnings.

* Openness to experience: +~1.9% per SD.
* Conscientiousness: +~1.6% per SD.
* Extraversion: +~0.3% per SD.
* Agreeableness: −~1.7% per SD.
* Neuroticism: −~1.8% per SD.

So if a person is +/- 2xSD in the “helpful” direction for each personality trait, personality would explain a 14.6% increase in earnings for these personality profiles.

Now we just need to figure out how much “Openness to experience,” “emotional stability,” “disagreeableness,” and “conscientiousness” **cause** people to move to other countries. If the causality for this is high, with a low per capita emigration rate (making this profile highly specific to emigration), we could say the following: People who are open to new experiences, work hard, are emotionally stable, and prioritize their own needs and wants make up a large proportion of emigrants. This, in turn, makes them outliers both in immigration rates and earnings potential, based solely on personality traits. So the very same personality that makes them prone to move makes them better earners.

Note, the math COULD fit, but I don’t know of any sources for emigration rate versus personality traits. But I would be surprised if this isn’t a huge part of the trend shown in the graph. In other words, personality alone could in theory explain this.

If one wanted to spice it up, one could also include the role of IQ in both immigration and earning. But that’s a minefield to talk about…

Just a fun thought experiment on my part though. Don’t take it too seriously.

This graph isn’t showing the whole picture (shocking I know). The immigrants are the top % of their type and would be the top no matter where they are in the world. It’d be interesting, and probably more appropriate to compare their incomes to those of Germans emigrants who are also more likely the top %s rather than including all those in the lower wage sectors.

Would have been nice to also include those that earn less than the median german. Just looking at the median german wage and then the median foreigner wage under it doesnt bode well

Median monthly income is just false.
Is Median monthly income of the subgroup of employees who earn enough to have to pay for social benefits.

Also only shares the data for the presented nationalities.

Really weird selection of data points to prove the author’s point.

Austria is also intersting but it checks out, the disposable median income in Austria is generally higher than in Germany by a good 20%, so all the “average” jobs pay better in Austria than Germany, while the only places where Germany has better pay are very niche and high paying jobs due to a much bigger market, so most Austrians that work in Germany work in these high paying jobs, as all the “average” jobs would be better paying in Austria.

I feel petty being irritated that Ireland/UK were lumped together