Native-immigrant wage differentials in Greece: discrimination and assimilation
| Autor: | Stelios Roupakias, Michael Chletsos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Labour economics Labour force survey Earnings immigration discrimination assimilation media_common.quotation_subject education 05 social sciences Immigration Transferability Wage jel:J71 jel:J61 Human capital 0502 economics and business Economics 050207 economics 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Popis: | This article applies the Blinder–Oaxaca methodology in order to dissect the average earnings differentials between Greek workers and three different groups of immigrants into a part attributed to differences in characteristics and a part due to discrimination. It also seeks to identify the effect of assimilation (i.e. postmigration human capital) on immigrants’ earnings. We use information about 8429 individuals, of which 1185 are immigrants. The data are drawn from the Greek Labour Force Survey (2009). Our results suggest that discrimination is significantly higher for immigrants originating from non-EU countries than it is for EU foreigners, while it is negative for those who terminated education in Greece. Also, there is evidence that (i) post-migration human capital is a significant determinant of immigrants earnings, (ii) there is limited transferability of skills between sending countries and Greece and (iii) education is the main determinant of the wage gap between natives and immigrants. |
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