-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known econometric technique, developed by Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973), to … determine the extent of discrimination. As data on earnings are available only for employed, we adopt a two-stage Heckman … Survey (SLFS). The earnings difference decomposition between natives and immigrants reveals that the discrimination effect …

observable innate ability affects the variety of tasks that can be performed within a firm. This gives monopsony power to firms …. Since the degree of monopsony power is increasing with task complexity, firms whose workforces undertake more sophisticated …

performed. This gives some firms monopsony power in the market for labour trained to do more advanced tasks. Firms will assign …