Wage Discrimination against Immigrants: Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data

Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

No 10159, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (2014) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm-level collective bargaining and smaller firm sizes are found to attenuate wage discrimination against foreigners, but not against women.

Keywords: workers' origin; discrimination; productivity; wages; gender; linked employer-employee panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J16 J24 J31 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2016-08
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Published - published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5 (15), 1-24

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