Interethnic Wage Variation in the Helsinki Area

Jan Saarela and Fjalar Finnäs
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Jan Saarela: Department of Social Sciences, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Fjalar Finnäs: Institutet för Finlandssvensk Samhällsforskning, Åbo Akademi University

Finnish Economic Papers, 2004, vol. 17, issue 1, 35-48

Abstract: This paper compares wage income of Swedish-speaking and Finnish-speaking employees in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Longitudinal data are analysed with random-effects tobit models. We find that Swedish-speaking males on average have 17 per cent higher wages than Finnish-speaking males. Two thirds of this wage gap can be attributed to characteristics differences, particularly education and age. For females the wage difference is very small. The findings echo previous research in the sense that they point out a favourable labour market performance of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland and that differences between language groups are larger among males than among females.

JEL-codes: J15 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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