The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in australia: Does unobserved heterogeneity matter?

Robert Breunig; Syed Hasan; Mosfequs Salehin

doi:10.1111/1475-4932.12075

The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in australia: Does unobserved heterogeneity matter?

Robert Breunig, Syed Hasan, Mosfequs Salehin

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Abstract

Immigrants to Australia are selected on observable characteristics. They may also differ from natives on unobservable characteristics such as ambition or motivation. If we account for unobservable differences, we find a wage gap for immigrant men from Eng

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	490-507
Journal	Economic Record
Volume	89
Issue number	287
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12075
Publication status	Published - 2013

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