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The distribution of discrimination in immigrant earnings : evidence from Britain 1974-1993
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Date Issued
1997-08-21
Date Available
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Abstract
This paper uses the General Household Survey data for the UK to study earnings discrimination between natives and migrants. The key result is that the main source of discrimination is ethnicity rather than migrant status per se. This paper differs from the conventional focus in studies of earnings discrimination, which focus on mean wage differences. In contrast we study the entire distribution of the wage gap, and incorporate distributionally sensitive measures of the wage gap reflecting different levels of aversion to discrimination. Our results are consistent with previous studies for the UK that find that non-white immigrants are the most widely discriminated in terms of their labour market returns. Moreover this discrimination on the basis of colour is also present in the sub-sample of natives.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Series
IFS Working Papers
W97/19
Copyright (Published Version)
1997, The Institute for Fiscal Studies
Subject – LCSH
Wages--Alien labor
Discrimination in employment--Great Britain
Wages--Great Britain
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Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
ISSN
1742-0415
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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