Immigrants wage gap in the Great Buenos Aires labor market : how important are differences in human capital?

Abstract: Labor market performance of native and immigrant workers differ in terms of their employment opportunities, their insertion by sector of employment, their labor legislation protection and their income. This paper analyses why the two groups of workers perform so differently by estimating a...

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Autores principales: Montoya, Silvia, Giordano, Virginia
Formato: Documento de trabajo
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Publicado: Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas 2019
Materias:
INMIGRANTES
CAPITAL HUMANO
MERCADO LABORAL
SALARIO
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/2281
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Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) de Universidad Católica Argentina
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topic INMIGRANTES
CAPITAL HUMANO
MERCADO LABORAL
SALARIO
spellingShingle INMIGRANTES
CAPITAL HUMANO
MERCADO LABORAL
SALARIO
Montoya, Silvia
Giordano, Virginia
Immigrants wage gap in the Great Buenos Aires labor market : how important are differences in human capital?
topic_facet INMIGRANTES
CAPITAL HUMANO
MERCADO LABORAL
SALARIO
description Abstract: Labor market performance of native and immigrant workers differ in terms of their employment opportunities, their insertion by sector of employment, their labor legislation protection and their income. This paper analyses why the two groups of workers perform so differently by estimating a Mincer equation and decomposing income differentials using the Oaxaca-Blinder method. The difference in income is assigned to different effects, endowment and return to those endowments. Immigrants have a higher probability of working in low productivity jobs and of being exposed to higher than average informality. Moreover, both internal and border country immigrants face a lower rate of labor legislation protection, have on average a lower level of human capital and earn lower income than native workers. Consistently, immigrants earn less than natives, being immigrants from border countries in worse situation than internal immigrants as opossed to that reference group. Female immigrants earn systematically less than their natives counterparts. Wage gap ranges from 13% to 71 % percent. Part of the wage gap is attributable to occupational segregation i.e. immigrants crowding into lower paid highly-informal occupations. The analysis shows that Native workers have on average more favorable characteristics, and experience slightly higher returns to these characteristics in terms of income than immigrant workers even after controlling for occupational insertion.
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author Montoya, Silvia
Giordano, Virginia
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Giordano, Virginia
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title Immigrants wage gap in the Great Buenos Aires labor market : how important are differences in human capital?
title_short Immigrants wage gap in the Great Buenos Aires labor market : how important are differences in human capital?
title_full Immigrants wage gap in the Great Buenos Aires labor market : how important are differences in human capital?
title_fullStr Immigrants wage gap in the Great Buenos Aires labor market : how important are differences in human capital?
title_full_unstemmed Immigrants wage gap in the Great Buenos Aires labor market : how important are differences in human capital?
title_sort immigrants wage gap in the great buenos aires labor market : how important are differences in human capital?
publisher Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
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