Analysis of wage differences between native and immigrant workers in Spain

  1. Canal-Domínguez, Juan Francisco
  2. Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, César
Revista:
Spanish economic review

ISSN: 1435-5469

Año de publicación: 2008

Título del ejemplar: Special Issue on economic aspects of immigration

Volumen: 10

Número: 2

Páginas: 109-134

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1007/S10108-007-9033-3 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Spanish economic review

Resumen

This paper analyses the nature of wage differences between native and immigrant workers in Spain. By estimating separated wage equations for the sub samples of both native and non-native workers and applying the Oaxaca–Blinder method, we observe that the relative unexplained (or discriminatory) component of the wage difference has a decreasing behaviour along the most part of the wage distribution, even becoming negative at the end. So, in this paper we detect the existence of a remarkable wage difference against the group of immigrants with the lowest wages which is not explained by the differences in the productive features of both native and non-native workers.

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