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Why migrants earn less: in search of the factors producing the ethno-migrant pay gap in a Dutch public organization

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  • Hans Siebers

    (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

  • Jilles van Gastel

    (Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile)

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In many countries, migrant/ethnic minority workers earn less than non-migrant/ethnic majority employees. This pay gap is not only attributable to migrant/ethnic minority employees having acquired less human capital or social capital, to the impact of government policies and to discrimination. Based on both qualitative and quantitative data collected in 2010, this case study of the job segregation component of the wage disadvantages of migrant employees in a Dutch public organization identifies several other factors. Migrant workers’/ethnic minority employees’ lower levels of participation in work-related communication and the application of socio-ideological labour control also widen this earnings gap. Moreover, migrant workers’/ethnic minority employees’ institutional and relational uncertainties, due to their subordinated position in Dutch society, help to explain their lower levels of participation in work-related communication and how socio-ideological labour control works out negatively for them.

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  • Hans Siebers & Jilles van Gastel, 2015. "Why migrants earn less: in search of the factors producing the ethno-migrant pay gap in a Dutch public organization," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 29(3), pages 371-391, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:29:y:2015:i:3:p:371-391
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    1. Lovanirina Ramboarison-Lalao & Chris Brewster, 2018. "Theorizing Career Success for Low Status Migrants," John H Dunning Centre for International Business Discussion Papers jhd-dp2018-02, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

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