Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/67253 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7019
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We focus on the effect of English deficiency on the native-immigrant wage gap for male employees in the UK using the first wave of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. We show that the wage gap is robust to controls for age, region of residence, educational attainment and ethnicity. However, English as Additional Language (EAL) is capable of explaining virtually all the remaining wage gap between natives and immigrants. Using the interaction of language of country of birth and age-at-arrival as instrument, we find strong evidence of a causal effect of EAL on the native-immigrant wage gap.
Subjects: 
native-immigrant wage gap
English as Additional Language (EAL)
age-at-arrival
JEL: 
J15
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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