Analysis of wage differences between native and immigrant workers in Spain

• Autores: Juan Francisco Canal Domínguez, César Rodríguez Gutiérrez
• Localización: Spanish economic review, ISSN 1435-5469, Vol. 10, Nº 2, 2008 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Issue on economic aspects of immigration), págs. 109-134
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.