IMMIGRATION AND DISCRIMINATION IN A FORMER EMIGRANT COUNTRY: THE CASE OF SPAIN

Antón, José-Ignacio () and Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo
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Antón, José-Ignacio: University of Salamanca
Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo: University of SalamancaAuthor-Name: Miguel Carrera
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No 2009.2, Working Papers from International Network for Economic Research - INFER

Abstract: This article analyses the immigrant-native wage differentials in Spain, which only recently has become a host country. The paper exploits the Earnings Structure Survey 2006, which is the first nationally representative sample of both foreign and Spanish employees. Using the Machado-Mata econometric procedure, wage differentials between locals and foreigners are decomposed into the gap related to characteristics and the one due to different returns on endowments (i.e., discrimination). We find that, in absolute terms, the latter component grows across wage distribution, reflecting the existence of a kind of glass ceiling consistent with the evidence of over-education found by previous research.

Keywords: Immigration; Wage differentials; Spain; Quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J71 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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