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From guests to hosts: a first whole picture of immigrant-native wage differentials in Spain

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Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael
Carrera, Miguel
Antón, José-Ignacio

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This article analyses the immigrant-native wage differentials in Spain, which only recently has become a host country. The paper exploits the Earnings Structure Survey 2006, which is the first nationally representative sample of both foreigner and Spaniard employees. Using the Machado-Mata econometric procedure, wage differentials between locals and foreigners are decomposed into the gap related to characteristics and that due to different returns to endowments (i.e., discrimination). We found that, in absolute terms, the latter component grows across wage distribution, reflecting the existence of a kind of glass ceiling consistent with the evidence of over-education found by previous research.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 13928.

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Keywords: immigration; wage differentials; Spain; quantile regression;

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F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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