Wage assimilation of immigrants and internal migrants

The role of linguistic distance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10409654
AutoresSteinar Strom (Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; and Department of Economics, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.), Daniela Piazzalunga (0000-0002-4765-4971, Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRVAPP), Trento, Italy; Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn, Germany; and CHILD-Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy.), A Venturini (0000-0001-8858-2743, Department of Economics, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Migration Policy Centre (MPC), European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy; and Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn, Germany., autor de correspondencia), Claudia Villosio (0000-0002-1709-4395, Collegio Carlo Alberto and LABORatorio Riccardo Revelli, Turin, Italy.)
Año2017
Volumen52
Número10
Páginas1423-1434
Fecha de publicación2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRegional Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-3404 • E-ISSN: 1360-0591
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00343404.2017.1395003
OpenAlexW2774888655
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas43

This paper investigates the wage assimilation of foreign immigrants and internal migrants in Italy, comparing them with stayers. Control for the selection in out-migration is performed using a new duration version of the Heckman correction and by taking into account both return migration and moves to other destinations. Internal migrants experience only minor wage differences when compared with stayers. By contrast, foreign immigrants earn about 8% less than stayers and internal migrants at the beginning of their careers, and the wage gap increases over time. Both language distance and job segmentation contribute to immigrants’ lack of wage assimilation

Assimilation (phonology · Demographic economics · Destinations · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Internal migration · Labour economics · Linguistics · Wage · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy