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Labour segregation and immigrant and native-born wage distributions in Spain: an analysis using matched employer-employee data
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This article carries out an empirical examination of the origin of the differences between immigrant and native-born wage structures in the Spanish labour market. Especial attention is given in the analysis to the role played by occupational and workplace segregation of immigrants. Legal immigrants from developing countries exhibit lower mean wages and a more compressed wage structure than native-born workers. By contrast, immigrants from developed countries display higher mean wages and a more dispersed wage structure. The main empirical finding is that the disparities in the wage distributions for the native-born and both groups of immigrants are largely explained by their different observed characteristics, with a particularly important influence in this context of workplace and, particularly, occupational segregation.
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SIMÓN PÉREZ, Hipólito J., SANROMÀ, Esteve and RAMOS LOBO, Raúl. Labour segregation and immigrant and native-born wage distributions in Spain: an analysis using matched employer-employee data. Spanish Economic Review. 2008. Vol. 10, num. 2, pags. 135-168. ISSN 1435-5469. [consulted: 13 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/64968