Statistical Discrimination, Productivity and the Height of Immigrants

Shing-Yi Wang

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Abstract: The analysis focuses on immigrants and native-born individuals because employers are likely to have less reliable signals of productivity for an immigrant than a native-born individual. Using multiple data sets, the paper presents a robust empirical finding that the wage gains associated with height are almost twice as large for immigrants than for native-born individuals. [Working Paper No. 289].

Keywords: statistical discrimination; native-born; employers; productivity; immigrants; wage; height; individuals; data sets; economic research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12
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