Raining stones? Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

Artikel

The aim of this paper is to analyse how female migrants fare in the Spanish labour market, a country that has experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment and the earning gap faced by this group, considering the interaction between two potential sources of disadvantage for migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both cases, we find an economically significant gap, at least for migrants from developing countries. Regarding the former, the larger unemployment rate of female migrants is not explained by observable characteristics. In the case of earnings differential, although human capital endowments play a relevant role, both the unexplained earnings penalty associated with gender and migrant status slightly rise across the distribution of wages.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Estudios de Economía ; ISSN: 0718-5286 ; Volume: 39 ; Year: 2012 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 53-86 ; Santiago de Chile: Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Labor Discrimination
• Thema: immigration ; women ; Spain ; unemployment ; earnings ; Migranten ; Frauen ; Weibliche Arbeitskräfte ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Spanien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Antòn, José-Ignacio ; de Bustillo, Rafael Muñoz ; Carrera, Miguel
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía
• (wo): Santiago de Chile
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/146698
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ