%0 Report
        %A Nielsen, Helena Skyt
%A Rosholm, Michael
%A Smith, Nina
%A Husted, Leif
        %T Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps
        %D 2001
        %8 2001 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 365
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp365
        %X In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the ‘assimilation literature’ and the ‘discrimination literature’. We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups using panel data sample selection models. Based on the estimations, we find that the immigrant wage gap is caused by a lack of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants could find employment and thus accumulate work experience.
        %K immigrants
%K Wage assimilation
%K panel data sample selection model
%K wage gap