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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
-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282147
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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
-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359860
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Immigrant Economic Assimilation: Evidence from UK Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2011
We exploit a large and long longitudinal dataset to estimate the immigrant-native earnings gap at entry and over time … estimate the associated immigrant earnings growth rate and immigrant-native earnings convergence rate. Our estimates suggest … that immigrants from more recent cohorts fare better than earlier ones at entry. Furthermore, the earnings of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291981
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Mind the Gap: What Gap? A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK using Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2011
-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291982
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Obesity and the labor market : a fresh look at the weight penalty
Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - 2014
not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical threshold of obesity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010245955
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Obesity and the labor market: A fresh look at the weight penalty
Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - 2014
not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical threshold of obesity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334233
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Uncovering the Roots of Obesity-Based Wage Discrimination: The Role of Job Characteristics
Dolado, Juan J.; Guerra, Airam - 2021
97) for the US, we test whether residual wage gaps (once observed differences in productivity related to obesity are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882511
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Body size and wages in Europe: A semi-parametric analysis
Hildebrand, Vincent A.; Kerm, Philippe Van - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010
Evidence of the association between wages and body size –typically measured by the body mass index– appears to be sensitive to estimation methods and samples, and varies across gender and ethnic groups. One factor that may contribute to this sensitivity is the non-linearity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542642
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Uncovering the roots of obesity-based wage discrimination: the role of job characteristics
Dolado, Juan J.; Guerra, Airam - 2021
97) for the US, we test whether residual wage gaps (once observed differences in productivity related to obesity are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793303
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Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty
Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical threshold of obesity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739946