Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149462 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA Journal of Migration [ISSN:] 2193-9039 [Volume:] 5 [Issue:] 15 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-24
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67(4):1166-1202, 2014) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm-level collective bargaining and smaller firm sizes are found to attenuate wage discrimination against foreigners, but not against women.
Subjects: 
Wages
Productivity
Discrimination
Workers' origin
Gender
Linked employer-employee panel data
JEL: 
J15
J16
J24
J31
J7
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Document Type: 
Article

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