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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...
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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … proportionately larger non-white and lower paid white immigration. …
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Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders
Daldy, Bridget; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...
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Immigration and Labor Productivity: New Empirical Evidence for Spain
Nicodemo, Catia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The purpose of this paper of this paper is to explore the immigration and productivity in Spain. We estimate the effect … of immigration on labor productivity from 2004 until 2008 for Spain. Using firms (SABI) and individuals data (Social … immigrants in the last decade: Barcelona and Madrid. After controlling for endogeneity of immigration, the results demonstrate …
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Complements or Substitutes? Task Specialization by Gender and Nativity in Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for … immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and …
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Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain
Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …
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The Mobility Challenge for Growth and Integration in Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Open and flexible labor markets foster growth, development and integration in Europe. The single European labor market is still a vision, however, whereas the core challenge is a lack of sufficient mobility. The presentation discusses the value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884383
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Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we study the roles of foreign origin and citizenship in the comparative East-West perspective. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763759
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolas; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others – are exophobic – or because they favor their own kind – are endophilic? This difference matters, as the...
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