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The Distribution of Discrimination in Immigrant Earnings : Evidence from Britain 1974-1993

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Denny, K-J
Harmon, C-P
Roche, M-J

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This paper uses the General Household Survey data for the UK to study earnings discrimination between natives and migrants. The key result is that the main source of discrimination is ethnicity rather than migrant status per se.

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Paper provided by College Dublin, Department of Political Economy- in its series Papers with number 97/21.

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Length: 17 pages
Date of creation: 1997
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Handle: RePEc:fth:dublec:97/21

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Keywords: DISCRIMINATION ; INCOME DISTRIBUTION;

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J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution

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  1. Coral del Río & Carlos Gradín & Olga Cantó, 2006. "The measurement of gender wage discrimination: The distributional approach revisited," Working Papers 25, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. [Downloadable!]
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