@techreport{Dustmann2005Gender,
abstract = {In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants
in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong
to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their
husbands. We compare these to native-born white women and their husbands. Our analysis
deviates from the usual mean analysis and investigates employment, hours worked and
earnings for males and females, as well as their combined family earnings, along the
distribution of husbands? economic potential. We analyse the extent to which economic
disadvantage may be reinforced at the household level and investigate to what extent it can be
explained by differences in observable characteristics. We find that white female immigrants
and their husbands have an overall advantage in earnings over white native born, both
individually and at the household level. Minority immigrants do less well, in particular at the
lower end of the husband?s economic potential distribution. This is mainly due to the low
employment of both genders, which leads to a disadvantage in earnings, intensified at the
household level. Only part of this differential can be explained by observable characteristics.},
author = {Christian Dustmann and Francesca Fabbri},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J15; 330; Frauenarbeitslohn; Lohndifferenzierung; Ethnische Gruppe; Haushaltseinkommen; Einkommensverteilung; Sch\"{a}tzung; Gro\ss{}britannien},
language = {eng},
number = {1598},
title = {Gender and ethnicity : married immigrants in Britain},
type = {CESifo working papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19062},
year = {2005}
}
