Qualifications, discrimination, or assimilation? An extended framework for analysing immigrant wage gaps

Empirical Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 855-883

  Nielsen, Helena Skyt ^a   Rosholm, Michael ^a   Smith, Nina ^b   Husted, Leif ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^c Inst of Local Government Studies   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Panel data sample selection model; Wage assimilation; Wage gap

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ETHNICITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; WAGE DETERMINATION; WAGE GAP;

EID: 8644227781     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-004-0221-9     Document Type: Article

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