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| Title: | | Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps  |
| Authors: | | Skyt Nielsen, Helena Rosholm, Michael Smith, Nina Husted, Leif |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 365 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the ?assimilation literature? and the ?discrimination literature?. We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups using panel data sample selection models. Based on the estimations, we find that the immigrant wage gap is caused by a lack of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants could find employment and thus accumulate work experience. |
| Subjects: | | Wage assimilation immigrants wage gap panel data sample selection model |
| JEL: | | J71 J15 J16 J31 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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