• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps
  • Contributor: Skyt Nielsen, Helena [Author]; Rosholm, Michael [Author]; Smith, Nina [Author]; Husted, Leif [Author]
  • Published: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2001
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung ; immigrants ; wage gap ; Migranten ; Lohnstruktur ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Wage assimilation ; J31 ; Lohndifferenzierung ; Soziale Integration ; Dänemark ; panel data sample selection model ; J71 ; Schätzung ; J16 ; Qualifikation ; J15
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  • Description: In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the ?assimilation literature? and the ?discrimination literature?. We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups using panel data sample selection models. Based on the estimations, we find that the immigrant wage gap is caused by a lack of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants could find employment and thus accumulate work experience.
  • Access State: Open Access