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Glass ceilings or glass doors? Wage disparity within and between firms

Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - 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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Endowment or Discrimination? An Analysis of Immigrant-Native Earnings Differentials in Switzerland

Golder, Stefan M. - 2000

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...

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High Unemployment in Germany: Why do Foreigners Suffer Most?

Geis, Wido - 2010

In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment...

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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben

Kohler, Pierre - 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...

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Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders

Daldy, Bridget M.; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 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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Mind the gap: A detailed picture of the immigrant-native earnings gap in the UK using longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - 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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Fiscal Position of Immigrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach

Joxhe, Majlinda; Scaramozzino, Pasquale; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021

This paper compares the net fiscal position (NFP) of immigrants versus natives using data from the European Survey on Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2007-2015. By employing a quantile regression approach, we find that European and non-European migrants have a different fiscal...

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Raining stones? Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

Antòn, José-Ignacio; de Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz; … - In: Estudios de Economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 53-86

experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment …

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Immigration and labor productivity: New empirical evidence for Spain

Nicodemo, Catia - 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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Immigration and housing booms: evidence from Spain

González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 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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