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Wage Discrimination Against Immigrants in Austria?
Author(s) -
Hofer Helmut,
Titelbach Gerlinde,
WinterEbmer Rudolf,
Ahammer Alexander
Publication year - 2017
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.12093
Subject(s) - wage , endowment , economics , immigration , quantile , social security , quantile regression , distribution (mathematics) , labour economics , human capital , position (finance) , demographic economics , econometrics , political science , mathematics , market economy , mathematical analysis , finance , law , economic growth
This paper analyses wage discrimination against immigrants in Austria using combined information from the labour force surveys and administrative social security data. We find that immigrants experience a wage penalty of 15 percentage points compared with natives. However, a substantial part of this gap can be explained by differences in human capital endowment and job position. Decomposition methods using quantile regressions indicate larger discrimination in the upper part of the wage distribution.