TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Alcobendas, Miguel Angel
AU  - Rodríguez-Planas, Núria
AU  - Vegas, Raquel
        TI  - Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level
        PY  - 2012/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6543
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6543
        AB  - While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an unprecedented immigration boom, Spain presents a quite unique experience to analyze immigrations' assimilation process. Using alternative datasets and methodologies, this paper provides evidence of a differential assimilation pattern for low- versus high-skilled immigrants in Spain: our key finding is that having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms occupational or wage assimilation (relative to their native counterparts).
        KW  - education
KW  - occupational assimilation
KW  - wage assimilation
        ER  -