Immigrant wage profiles within and between establishments
Erling Barth,
Bernt Bratsberg (bernt.bratsberg@frisch.uio.no) and
Oddbjørn Raaum
Labour Economics, 2012, vol. 19, issue 4, 541-556
Abstract:
Life cycle wages of immigrants from developing countries fall short of catching up with wages of natives. Using linked employer–employee data, we show that 40% of the native–immigrant wage gap is explained by differential sorting across establishments. We find that returns to experience and seniority are similar for immigrant and native workers, but that differences in job mobility and intermittent spells of unemployment are major sources of disparity in lifetime wage growth. The inferior wage growth of immigrants primarily results from failure to advance to higher paying establishments over time. These empirical patterns are consistent with signaling disadvantages of immigrant job seekers, but not with the explanation that low wage growth follows from inferior information about employers and job opportunities.
Keywords: Immigrants; Wages; Assimilation; Firm wage effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2012.05.009
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