Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees

Hans Lööf (), Andreas Stephan, Klaus Zimmermann () and Christopher Baum

Portugal Stata Conference 2020 from Stata Users Group

Abstract: Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employer-employee data is to show that the gap is mainly caused by occupational sorting into cognitive and manual tasks. Within occupations, it can be largely explained by differences in work experience, while the remaining gap might be caused by discrimination. The identification strategy relies on a control group of matched natives with the same characteristics as the refugees, using population-level panel data for 2003–2013 to capture unobserved heterogeneity.

Date: 2020-08-20
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Working Paper: Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees (2020)
Working Paper: Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees (2020)
Working Paper: Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees (2020)
Working Paper: Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees (2020)
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