Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/203009 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 722
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
The dissertation aims to analyse the wage gaps between native workers and immigrants in the United States in the period of 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. The methodology used are Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The results found that immigrants earn less than the natives and there are wage gaps between immigrants and native workers of about 0.14 taken into account the similar human capital characteristics.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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