Wage differences between immigrants and natives in Austria: The role of literacy skills

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This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups, literacy skills are an important determinant of the hourly wage. In the second step, we show that differences in proficiency with respect to literacy can explain more than three log points of the total wage gap of 9.7 log points between natives and immigrants. When adding literacy skills to the wage decomposition, the discriminatory part vanishes completely, suggesting that the wage difference between immigrants and natives in Austria can be to a large extent explained. Furthermore, we account for a possible sample selection bias. After controlling for literacy skills, the unexplained part of the gap becomes statistically insignificant. The importance of literacy skills in explaining wage differences between natives and immigrants is robust across several sensitivity tests.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Agenda Austria Working Paper ; No. 12

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Discrimination ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
• Thema: wage ; decomposition ; gap ; immigrants ; natives ; Austria

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Christl, Michael ; Köppl-Turyna, Monika ; Gnan, Phillipp
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Agenda Austria
• (wo): Wien
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/171331
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ