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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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The Impacts of Social Networks on Immigrants’ Employment Prospects: The Spanish Case 1997-2007

Errico, Luciana Méndez - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma … - 2013

This paper studies the extent to which social networks influence the employment stability and wages of immigrants in Spain. By doing so, I consider an aspect that has not been previously addressed in the empirical literature, namely the connection between immigrants’ social networks and labor...

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Doctors without borders: The returns to an occupational license for Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana; Sauer, Robert - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Changes in the Czech wage structure: Does immigration matter?

Dybczak, Kamil; Galuščák, Kamil - European Central Bank - 2010

Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, changes in the wage...

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Wage differentials between native and immigrant women in Spain

Nicodemo, Catia; Ramos, Raul - In: International Journal of Manpower 33 (2012) 1, pp. 118-136

Spain is particularly interesting because it is a country with abundant and recent immigration. Immigrant women account for …

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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...

Peri, Giovanni - 2014

demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …

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Do immigrants improve the health of native workers? : immigration crowds native workers out of risky jobs and into less strenuous work, with consequent benefits to their health

Giuntella, Osea - 2014

Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to … consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that …. Recent studies show that as immigration rises, native workers are pushed into less demanding jobs. Such market adjustments …

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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? : immigrants initially earn less than natives; the wage gap falls over time, but for many immigrant groups it never closes

Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2015

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

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Earnings inequality, returns to education and immigration into Ireland

Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John D.; Nolan, Brian - 2000

somewhat surprising as the exceptional growth in the Irish economy occurred from 1994 on. We look to immigration as being a … simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from … the US that shows the immigration of unskilled workers increasing earnings inequality. …

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How relevant is the origin of human capital for immigrant wages? Evidence from Spain

Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - In: Journal of applied economics 18 (2015) 1, pp. 149-172

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