The English language fluency and earnings of ethnic minorities in Britain

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 467-487

  Lindley, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC MINORITY; LANGUAGE; RACIAL DISPARITY; WAGE DETERMINATION; WAGE GAP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0347542696     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9485.00242     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. AMEMIYA, T. (1978). The estimation of a simultaneous equation generalised probit model. Econometrica, 46, 5, pp. 1193-205.
2. BELL, B. D. (1997). The performance of immigrants in the United Kingdom: evidence from the GHS. The Economic Journal, 107, pp. 333-44.
3. BLACKABY, D. H., CLARK, K., LESLIE D. G. and MURPHY, P. D. (1994). Black-white earnings and employment prospects in the 1970s and 1980s: evidence for Britain. Economics Letters, 46, pp. 273-79.
4. BLACKABY, D. H., CLARK, K., LESLIE D. G. and MURPHY, P. D. (1998). The ethnic wage gap and employment prospects in the 1990s: evidence for Britain. Economics Letters, 58, pp. 97-103.
5. BLACKABY, D., DRINKWATER, S., MURPHY, P. and O'LEARY, N. (2001). English language fluency and the ethnic wage gap in Britain. Economic Issues, forthcoming.
6. BLACKABY, D., LESLIE, D., MURPHY, P. and O'LEARY, N. (1999). White/ethnic minority earnings and employment differentials in Britain: evidence from the LFS. Mimeo. University of Wales, Swansea.
7. BLINDER, A. S. (1973). Wage discrimination: reduced form and structural variables. Journal of Human Resources, 8, pp. 436-55.
8. BORJAS, G. J. (1994). The economics of immigration. Journal of Economic Literature, 37, pp. 1667-717.
9. CHISWICK, R. B. (1978). The effect of Americanisation on the earnings of foreign born men. Journal of Political Economy, 86, pp. 897-921.
10. CHISWICK, B. R. and MILLER, P. W. (1995). The endogeneity between language and earnings: international analyses. Journal of Labor Economics, 13, 2, pp. 246-88.
11. DUSTMANN, C. and van SOEST, A. (1998). Language and the earnings of immigrants. Mimeo, University College London, September.
12. HECKMAN, J. (1979). Sample selection bias as a specification error. Econometrica, 47, pp. 153-61.
13. LESLIE, D. (ed.) (1998). An Investigation of Racial Disadvantage. Manchester University Press, Manchester.
14. LESLIE, D. and LINDLEY, J. K. (2001). The impact of language ability on employment and earnings of Britain's ethnic communities. Economica, November, pp. 587-606.
15. LESLIE, D., DRINKWATER, S. and O'LEARY N. (1998). Unemployment and earnings among Britain's ethnic minorities: some signs for optimism. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 24, pp. 489-506.
16. MCMANUS, W., GOULD W. and WELCH, F. (1983). Earnings of Hispanic men: the role of English language proficiency. Journal of Labor Economics, 1, pp. 101-30.
17. MILLER, P. W. (1989). An economic analysis of citizenship in Australia. Nedlands: University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.
18. MODOOD, T., BERTHOUD, R. and others (1997). Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Diversity and Disadvantage, Policy Institute, London.
19. NEUMARK, D. (1988). Employers discriminatory behaviour and the estimation of wage discrimination. Journal of Human Resources, 23, pp. 279-95.
20. OAXACA, R. L. (1973). Male-female wage differentials in urban labour markets. International Economic Review, 14, pp. 529-36.
21. OAXACA, R. L. and RANSOM, M. R. (1994). On discrimination and the decomposition of wage differentials. Journal of Econometrics, 61, pp. 5-21.
22. SHIELDS, M. A. and WHEATLEY PRICE, S. (2002). The English language fluency and occupational success of ethnic minority immigrant men living in English metropolitan areas. Journal of Population Economics, 15, pp. 137-160.
23. SMITH, P. and PRIOR, G. (1996). The Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities: Technical Report. London: Social and Community Planning Research.
24. STROMBACK, T. (1986). The earnings of migrants in Australia. Conference Paper No 46, Canberra: Bureau of Labour Market Research.