Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82263 
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Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2013:7
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to control for selection into employment when studying wage assimilation of immigrants is very likely to under-estimate wage catch-up. The results further show that both poorly and highly educated immigrants catch up through relative wage growth within workplaces and occupations, suggesting that employer-specic learning plays an important role for the wage catch-up. The highly educated suffers from not benefiting from occupational mobility as much as the natives do. This could be interpreted as a lack of access to the full range of occupations, possibly explained by difficulties in signaling specific skills.
Subjects: 
firm sorting
occupational mobility
wage assimilation
host country specific human capital
employer learning
JEL: 
D22
D31
J01
J31
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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