Matos, Ana Damas de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial … immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this wage catch-up is accounted for by firm heterogeneity: Immigrants remain … in the same occupations but get jobs with better paying _rms. Over time immigrants move to larger, more productive firms …