Employment and wages of immigrants in Portugal

Cláudia Duarte and Sonia Cabral ()

Working Papers from Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department

Abstract: Using matched employer-employee data, we examine the main characteristics of immigrants in the Portuguese labour market in the 2002-2008 period. We find substantial differences in labour market outcomes between native and immigrant workers and among different nationality groups, in terms of age, gender, tenure, worker flows, geographical and sectoral concentration, and education levels. As in other countries, the wages of immigrants in Portugal are lower than the wages of natives, though growing at a higher pace in the period analysed. Moreover, downward wage rigidity appears to be slightly higher for immigrants than for natives.

JEL-codes: F22 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-mig
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