Firm heterogeneity and immigrant wage assimilation |
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Authors: | Ana Damas de Matos |
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Institution: | HEC Montréal, Montréal, Canada |
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Abstract: | This article investigates the role of job mobility in immigrant wage assimilation. I use longitudinal linked employer–employee data for Portugal to estimate the immigrant wage catch-up in log wage regressions with both individual and firm fixed effects. I show that moving to firms with higher wage premiums accounts for approximately 30% of the immigrant wage catch-up in the first years. |
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Keywords: | Immigrants firm wage effects linked employer–employee panel data |
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