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Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in …-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 …
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traits. Such prejudice does not necessarily lead to wage discrimination. Whether or not it does depends on the nature of the … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We … analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for …
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immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67(4):1166-1202, 2014 …
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employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … strategy to account for the endogenous choice of location, I find a negative effect of the inflows of immigrants on the local …
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Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … immigration enforcement mutes job creation and raises the unemployment rate of all workers, having an even larger detrimental …
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We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant … however of wage discrimination against rural hukou status. A semi-parametric method suggests a larger discrimination against … migrants in the upper half of the wage distribution. Discrimination against migrants seems not to decrease as their duration of …
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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when …
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Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the...
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