Are foreign migrants more assimilated than native ones?

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The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding of the role played by language and knowledge of social capital. We use the administrative dataset on dependent employment (WHIP), to estimate a fixed effect model of the weekly wages of males aged 18-45 with controls for selection in return migration and unobserved heterogeneity. The three groups of workers start their careers at the same wage level but, as experience increases, the wage profiles of foreigners and natives, both immigrants and locals, diverge. A positive selection in the returns prevails, so that the foreign workers with lower wages are the most likely to stay in Italy. Also an ethnic skill differential emerges and a negative status dependence for those entering at low wage level.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4639

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Thema: Migration ; assimilation ; wage differential ; Lohnstruktur ; Migranten ; Bevölkerung ; Regionale Arbeitsmobilität ; Soziale Integration ; Schätzung ; Italien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Faini, Riccardo ; Strøm, Steinar ; Venturini, Alessandra ; Villosio, Claudia
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36066
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ