Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 8,703
Cover Image
How are you doing in your grandpa’s country? Labour market performance of Latin American immigrants in Spain.
Antón, José-Ignacio; Carrera, Miguel; Muñoz de … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyses wage differentials between local and foreign workers from Latin America and the Caribbean in Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105681
Cover Image
From guests to hosts: a first whole picture of immigrant-native wage differentials in Spain
Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael; Carrera, Miguel; Antón, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This article analyses the immigrant-native wage differentials in Spain, which only recently has become a host country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835760
Cover Image
Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767730
Cover Image
Discrimination in the Swiss Labour Market: an Empirical Analysis
Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in Switzerland. The goal of this paper is to determine whether these differences can be attributed to diverging socio-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666559
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688396
Cover Image
Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 339-353
Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimate the immigrant–native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719503
Cover Image
Three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland: putting into perspective the influence of economic discrimination and of host society culture
Kohler, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension is usually examined separately, this study proposes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111800
Cover Image
The Effect of Host Society Culture on Migrant Wage Discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben
Kohler, Pierre - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2012
This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the Swiss context stems from two stylized facts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543529
Cover Image
From the Spain who migrates to the Spain who hosts: Context, dimension and characteristics of Latin American immigration in Spain
Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael; Antón, José-Ignacio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to present an overall assessment of immigration in Spain. In order to do so, we analyse the … evolution and composition of migration flows from and to Spain during the last decades. In addition, we explore in detail the … demographic and socio-economic characteristics of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants in Spain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105679
Cover Image
Raining stones? Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market
Antón, José-Ignacio; Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz de; … - In: Estudios de Economia 39, 1 Year 2012, pp. 53-86
experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010562181