Statistical Discrimination, Productivity, and the Height of Immigrants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3324938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shing-Yi Wang (0000-0001-7709-9537, Shing-Yi Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 529-557 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019793915572125 |
| OpenAlex | W1854228165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
Building on the economic research that demonstrates a positive relationship between height and worker ability, the author compares wage returns to height for immigrants and for natives to explore possible explanations for the positive wage-height gradient. Using multiple data sets, the article presents a robust empirical finding that the wage gains associated with height are almost twice as large for immigrants as for native-born individuals. This wage relationship occurs because the productivity gap between tall and short immigrants is greater than the productivity gap between tall and short native-born workers. The author next tests for the possibility that in the relative absence of other sources of information about immigrants, employers place more importance on height for immigrants than for native-born individuals. The evidence does not support the hypothesis of statistical discrimination based on height
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Labour economics · Productivity · Wage · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
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Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
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Profiling the New Immigrant Worker
The Technology of Skill Formation
Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
The Economics of Immigration
The Economic Analysis of Immigration
Economics of Immigration
Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages
The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
Stature and Status
The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes
Is the New Immigration Really so Bad
Statistical Theories of Discrimination in Labor Markets
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |