Qualifications, discrimination, or assimilation? An extended framework for analysing immigrant wage gaps

Helena Nielsen, Michael Rosholm, Nina Smith and Leif Husted ()
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Empirical Economics, 2004, vol. 29, issue 4, 855-883

Abstract: In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the ‘assimilation literature’ and the ‘discrimination literature’. We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups using panel data sample selection models. Based on the estimations, we find that the immigrant wage gap is caused by a lack of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants could find employment and thus accumulate work experience. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2004

Keywords: Wage assimilation; immigrants; wage gap; panel data sample selection model; J15; J16; J31; J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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