regarding pay discrimination against rural migrants. This paper uses data from a random draw of the 2005 Chinese national census … survey to shed more light on the discrimination issue, by making comparisons of earnings and the sector of work between rural … discrimination against rural migrants compared to urban residents. However, rural migrants are found to be discriminated in terms of …

urbanised areas. Immigrants have high well-being outcomes on average but suffer an initial shortfall in employment and wages … further adjustments to the system to enhance its well-being benefits for both the NZ-born and immigrants. This Working Paper …

populations. This document presents the first results of the update of the Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC) for the …/06, slightly more than that of Asian migrants (27%). Labour market outcomes of immigrants vary by region and country of origin, but …

This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of … destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor … market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …

various sub-sections of the labour force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper, we examine the … efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews of Eastern origin …

of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It … results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …