Arbeitspapier

Wage differentials between immigrants and native workers in the United States

The dissertation aims to analyse the wage gaps between native workers and immigrants in the United States in the period of 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. The methodology used are Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The results found that immigrants earn less than the natives and there are wage gaps between immigrants and native workers of about 0.14 taken into account the similar human capital characteristics.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: LIS Working Paper Series ; No. 722

Classification
Wirtschaft

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Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Chaikwaeng, Morakot
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
(where)
Luxembourg
(when)
2017

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Chaikwaeng, Morakot
  • Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)

Time of origin

  • 2017

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