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Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...
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Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is suggested by the ethnosizer, a newly established measure to...
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We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and nonwhite male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market are distinguished from those who arrived to complete their education. Diverse...
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The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account …
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earnings inequality in Spain from 1988 to 2010. Male earnings inequality was strongly countercyclical: it increased around the …
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While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous effects of PT work across different subgroups, despite the policy relevance of understanding channels...
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countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host … studied in Spain. Whatever their home country, they obtain relatively high wage returns to education, including the part not … acquired in the host country. Having legal status in Spain is associated with a substantial wage premium of around 15%. Lastly …
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penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … that the raw gap in hourly gross pay amounts to 16 percent of male part-timer's wage in Spain, to 24 percent in Belgium, to …
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This research examines wage differentials associated to different collective bargaining regimes in Spain and their …
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This study examines wage differences across Spain's regions along the entire wage distribution based on matched … changes in both economic cycle and labour regulations that occurred in Spain during the examined period. This evidence …
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