The Distribution of Discrimination in Immigrant Earnings: Evidence from Britain 1974-1993

Kevin Denny, Colm Harmon and Maurice Roche

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Abstract: This paper uses the General Household Survey data for the UK to study earnings discrimination between natives and migrants. The key result is that the main source of discrimination is ethnicity rather than migrant status per se.

Keywords: DISCRIMINATION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 1997
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