From the bottom to the top

A more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3056089
AutoresPriscillia Hunt (0000-0002-3902-6369, RAND Corporation, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume1
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIZA Journal of Migration (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2193-9039 • E-ISSN: 2193-9039
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/2193-9039-1-9
OpenAlexW2140988131
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas16

This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the conditional wage distribution. Although immigrants earn more on average than natives, mean results mask that immigrants at the bottom (top) of the distribution earn less (more) than natives. Over the period investigated, the pro-UK-born unexplained component of the wage gap was greater at the bottom of the distribution and has shifted towards the centre of the distribution. Jel codes J15, J16, J31, J71

Demographic economics · Differential (mechanical device · Distribution (mathematics · Econometrics · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Labour economics · Quantile · Quantile regression · Wage · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Migration and Labor Dynamics