Earnings Divergence of Immigrants

Lam, Kit‐Chun; Liu, Pak‐Wai

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“…This literature has placed especial attention on the wages of immigrants relative to native-born workers and its key empirical findings are, firstly, that immigrants typically face a significant wage gap and, secondly, that the gap tends to diminish the longer they remain in their host country (Chiswick, 1978and Borjas, 1994 for the US; Chiswick, Lee and Miller, 2005a for Australia; Friedberg, 2000 for Israel;Lam and Liu, 2002 for Hong Kong and Baker and Benjamin, 1994 for Canada).…”

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Labour segregation and immigrant and native-born wage distributions in Spain: an analysis using matched employer–employee data

2007

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This article carries out an empirical examination of the origin of the differences between immigrant and native-born wage structures in the Spanish labour market. Especial attention is given in the analysis to the role played by occupational and workplace segregation of immigrants. Legal immigrants from developing countries exhibit lower mean wages and a more compressed wage structure than native-born workers. By contrast, immigrants from developed countries display higher mean wages and a more dispersed wage structure. The main empirical finding is that the disparities in the wage distributions for the native-born and both groups of immigrants are largely explained by their different observed characteristics, with a particularly important influence in this context of workplace and, particularly, occupational segregation.

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Labour segregation and immigrant and native-born wage distributions in Spain: an analysis using matched employer–employee data

2007

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“…Previous studies, based on census data from the 1980s (Lam & Liu, 2002a, 2002b found divergent earnings between immigrant and native workers from 1981 to 1991, as immigrant workers fell increasingly behind native workers. Such divergence was very different from other major immigrant countries, such as the United States, where immigrant workers have tended to improve their economic position over time relative to native workers (Borjas, 1985(Borjas, , 1995Chiswick, 1978).…”

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One Country Two Peoples?

Post

Pong

2014

Asian Population Studies

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“…Second, the ''U'' pattern will be less pronounced for migrants from similar countries, for example, between developed countries. Third, the time of residence in the host society increases the human capital of immigrants specifically adapted to the requirements of the labour market in the destination country (Chiswick et al 1997;Lam and Liu 2002;Weiss et al 2003).…”

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Employment and Occupational Mobility among Recently Arrived Immigrants: The Spanish Case 1997–2007

Fernández‐Macías

Grande

Poveda

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Popul Res Policy Rev

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The objective of this paper is to analyse occupational mobility among immigrants in Spain in two distinct stages: (1) comparing the immigrants' first job in Spain with their profession in the country of origin and (2) comparing their current occupational status with the occupational status of the first job they held in Spain. We focus on immigrants who arrived in Spain during the ''immigration boom'' that took place between 1997 and 2007, using data from the 2007 National Survey on Immigration. For our analysis, we use occupational mobility tables and multi-variable models with occupational mobility as a dependent variable. Our results show that we can better understand the initial access of migrants to the Spanish labour market from the perspective of labour market segregation: for each gender, a particular sector/occupational level (construction and cleaning, respectively) played such a dominant role that it determined almost entirely the observed mobility pattern. We find some (upward) mobility opportunities after such initial strong segregation, which increased with length of residence; however, our results suggest that, even in this case, it is mostly limited to men and associated with the construction boom that finished abruptly in 2007.

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Earnings Divergence of Immigrants

Cited by 40 publications

References 12 publications

Labour segregation and immigrant and native-born wage distributions in Spain: an analysis using matched employer–employee data

Labour segregation and immigrant and native-born wage distributions in Spain: an analysis using matched employer–employee data

One Country Two Peoples?

Employment and Occupational Mobility among Recently Arrived Immigrants: The Spanish Case 1997–2007

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