Wage Differentials between Immigrants and Native Workers in the United States

Morakot Chaikwaeng ()

No 722, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: The dissertation aims to analyse the wage gaps between native workers and immigrants in the United States in the period of 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. The methodology used are Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The results found that immigrants earn less than the natives and there are wage gaps between immigrants and native workers of about 0.14 taken into account the similar human capital characteristics.

Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2017-11
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