The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Alfonso Miranda and Yu Zhu

No 7841, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection into employment we suggest a 3-step estimator (TSE). The properties of this estimator are investigated in a Monte Carlo simulation study and we show evidence that TSE delivers a consistent and asymptotically normal estimator. We find a large and statistically significant causal effect of EAL on the immigrant-native wage gap for women.

Keywords: endogenous treatment; immigrant-native wage gap; English as Additional Language (EAL); sample selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 J15 J31 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2013-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ecm, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Published - published as 'The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias' in: Applied Economics Letters , 2021, 28 (5), 349-353

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