Arbeitspapier

Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation: The role of workplaces and occupations

This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to control for selection into employment when studying wage assimilation of immigrants is very likely to under-estimate wage catch-up. The results further show that both poorly and highly educated immigrants catch up through relative wage growth within workplaces and occupations, suggesting that employer-specic learning plays an important role for the wage catch-up. The highly educated suffers from not benefiting from occupational mobility as much as the natives do. This could be interpreted as a lack of access to the full range of occupations, possibly explained by difficulties in signaling specific skills.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2013:7

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Labor Economics: General
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Labor Discrimination
Thema
firm sorting
occupational mobility
wage assimilation
host country specific human capital
employer learning
Migranten
Lohnstruktur
Arbeitsmobilität
Humankapital
Schweden

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Eliasson, Tove
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
(wo)
Uppsala
(wann)
2013

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Eliasson, Tove
  • Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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