Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level: Recent Evidence for Spain

Núria Rodriguez-Planas, Miguel Ángel Alcobendas () and Raquel Vegas
Additional contact information
Miguel Ángel Alcobendas: Toulouse School of Economics

A chapter in The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows, 2014, pp 161-181 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract While much of the literature on immigrants’ assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labour markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labour market, and an unprecedented immigration boom, Spain presents a quite unique experience to analyze immigrations’ assimilation process. Using alternative datasets and methodologies, this study provides evidence of a differential assimilation pattern for low- versus high-skilled immigrants in Spain. The key finding is that having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms of occupational or wage assimilation relative to their native counterparts.

Keywords: Wage Differential; Labour Force Survey; Native Counterpart; Wage Penalty; Fitted Probability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:popchp:978-3-319-04078-3_8

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319040783

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04078-3_8

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Population Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().