The effect of deficiency at English on female immigrants’ wage in the UK: correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias

Alfonso Miranda and Yu Zhu

Applied Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 28, issue 5, 349-353

Abstract: We investigate how English as Additional Language (EAL) affects the wage gap among foreign-born female immigrants in the UK. To deal with endogeneity and measurement error of EAL and self-selection into employment we implement a 3-step estimation (TSE) procedure suggested by Wooldridge, which deliver consistent and asymptotically normal estimators. We find a large and statistically significant causal effect of EAL on the wage gap.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1753873

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