A note on the immigrant-native gap in earnings

• Autorzy: Stephan Humpert
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This note analyzes earning differentials between foreigners and natives in Germany. We use the recent published 2012 wave of German social survey data (ALLBUS) to perform Mincer-style quintile regressions and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions. People born outside Germany have an average earning loss for about -6.5 to -10 percent, relative to natives. Persons with foreign citizenship have even higher losses. They face penalties between -8.2 to -14.3 percent. Both groups are performing relatively better at the upper part than at the lower part of the income distribution. Decompositions show a 9.2 percent difference for immigrants, while the most of the gap itself is unexplained by differences in endowments. Individuals without German citizenship have a 15.8 percent difference. Here, more of the half remains unexplained.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

immigration; earnings; pay gap; Germany; ALLBUS

• Wydawca: University Service Publishing, Prague, Czech Republic
• Czasopismo: International Economics Letters
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: 2
• Numer: 4
• Strony: 41-49

Twórcy

autor

Stephan Humpert

• Redakce IEL, Univerzitní servis, s.r.o., Trnkovo nám. 1112/2, 152 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic