TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Nielsen, Helena Skyt
AU  - Rosholm, Michael
AU  - Smith, Nina
AU  - Husted, Leif
        TI  - Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps
        PY  - 2001/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 365
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp365
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - immigrants
KW  - Wage assimilation
KW  - panel data sample selection model
KW  - wage gap
        ER  -