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Is There a Double‐Negative Effect? Gender and Ethnic Wage Differentials in I taly
Author(s) -
Piazzalunga Daniela
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/labr.12052
Subject(s) - wage , ethnic group , economics , demographic economics , gender gap , labour economics , sociology , anthropology
This paper investigates the gender and ethnic wage differentials for female migrants in I taly by applying the O axaca– B linder decomposition, with and without Heckman correction, to account for self‐selection into the labour market. The gender wage gap is nearly 15 per cent, more than 60 per cent of which is unexplained by observable differences. The ethnic wage gap is much larger (39 per cent), but endowments explain 53 per cent of the gap. We also estimate the double‐negative effect of being both female and a migrant. A female migrant earns 42 per cent less than an I talian male; the unexplained component is estimated to be 53–65 per cent. Results are robust to different specifications.