TY - JOUR
T1 - The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage across the Earnings and Skills Distributions
T2 - The Case of Immigrants from the EU's New Member States
AU - McGuinness, Seamus
AU - Barrett, Alan
AU - O'Brien, Martin
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - We analyse the earnings of immigrants from the EU's new member states (NMS) using a large-scale dataset with information on employees in Ireland. We find that the average earnings difference between these immigrants and natives is between 10 and 18 per cent, depending on the controls used. However, the difference is found to be lower for people at the lower end of the earnings distribution. It is also generally lower for people at the lower end of the education distribution. We find mixed evidence on whether unions have an impact on the wages of immigrants from the NMS, although such immigrants appear to suffer a wage penalty as a result of being in firms that provided training to a significant proportion of their workforce.
AB - We analyse the earnings of immigrants from the EU's new member states (NMS) using a large-scale dataset with information on employees in Ireland. We find that the average earnings difference between these immigrants and natives is between 10 and 18 per cent, depending on the controls used. However, the difference is found to be lower for people at the lower end of the earnings distribution. It is also generally lower for people at the lower end of the education distribution. We find mixed evidence on whether unions have an impact on the wages of immigrants from the NMS, although such immigrants appear to suffer a wage penalty as a result of being in firms that provided training to a significant proportion of their workforce.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00835.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00835.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0007-1080
VL - 50
SP - 457
EP - 481
JO - British Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - British Journal of Industrial Relations
IS - 3
ER -