Statistical Discrimination, Productivity and the Height of Immigrants

The analysis focuses on immigrants and native-born individuals because employers are likely to have less reliable signals of productivity for an immigrant than a native-born individual. Using multiple data sets, the paper presents a robust empirical finding that the wage gains associated with height are almost twice as large for immigrants than for native-born individuals. [Working Paper No. 289].

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Year of publication:	2010-12
Authors:	Wang, Shing-Yi
Institutions:	eSocialSciences
Subject:	statistical discrimination \| native-born \| employers \| productivity \| immigrants \| wage \| height \| individuals \| data sets \| economic research

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Institutional Papers
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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