Saturday 24 May 2008

Immigrant wage differentials, ethnicity and occupational segregation

an article by Robert J R Elliott (University of Birmingham) and Joanne K Lindley (University of Sheffield) in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) Volume 171 Issue 3 (June 2008)

Abstract
The authors investigate occupational attainment as well as estimating earnings differentials for non-white migrants and non-white natives, including occupational effects. They control for the occupational selection of immigrants and compare across native and immigrant groups. Relative to white natives, they find no evidence of an ethnic pay disadvantage for white and South Asian professional workers. Although occupational segregation and other human capital and socio-economic factors provide a partial explanation for the raw earnings differential, evidence of ethnic-based disadvantage in most occupations persists.

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