As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …

females and males are identical in all respects. Specifically, we argue that a pay gap can emerge naturally as discrimination … change in elasticity emerges it in fact makes discrimination optimal and allows discrimination to materialize in equilibrium …. Moreover, we show that discrimination against females is detrimental to the overall welfare and in addition it negatively …

I test some predictions of Gary Becker’s theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by … found in manufacturing and gastronomy. These results broadly confirm the predictions from taste discrimination. -- Taste … discrimination ; segregated firms ; wage differentials …

and immigrants relative to the frontier, the wage discrimination hypothesis is rejected. Actually, human capital …Immigrants in Germany display a poor earnings performance relative to natives. Arguing that human capital endowments … estimation. The empirical results clearly support the frontier assumption, but - surprisingly - find natives and immigrants at …

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …

integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them …

penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …) that are crucial in overeducation analysis. First, we find that immigrants have significantly higher incidence rates of …