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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...

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Undocumented workers in the labor market: An analysis of the earnings of legal and illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States

Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. - In: Journal of Population Economics 12 (1999) 1, pp. 91-116

workers and 43% of the gap for women. An analysis of undocumented immigrants legalized after the 1986 U.S. immigration policy …

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...

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National Origin Wage Differentials in France: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Aeberhardt, Romain; Pouget, Julien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper attempts to explain national origin wage differentials in France. Our data come from a matched employer-employee wage survey performed in 2002. Business survey data are matched to many individual-level variables collected in a household survey. The sample of professionals is...

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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms

Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

We investigate whether immigrant and minority workersÂ’ poor access to high-wage jobsÂ— that is, glass ceilingsÂ— is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage Â…rms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and...

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

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Immigration, langues et performance economique: le Quebec et l'Ontario entre 1970 et 1995.

Grenier, G. - Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, … - 2000

Cette etude contribue a deux courants de litterature relativement distincts: l'integration econmique des immigrants au Canada et les liens entre attributs linguistiques et revenus - au Quebec surtout mais aussi dans le reste du Canada. L'analyse porte sur deux provinces canadiennes, le Quebec et...

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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 5, pp. 490-517

Immigrant-native wage differentials are observed in many countries, so in Germany. However, the available empirical literature for Germany defined the groups in consideration, immigrants and natives, by citizenship. This limits the explanatory power of the estimates since citizenship...

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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: a Factor Proportions Approach

Ortega, J.; Verdugo, G. - Banque de France - 2011

This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …

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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...

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