Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5060334 Economics Letters 2013 4 Pages PDF
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► We analyse the native-immigrant wage gap for male employees in the UK. ► We control for age, region of residence, educational attainment and ethnicity. ► English as Additional Language explains most of the composition-adjusted wage gap. ► EAL instrumented by interaction of language of country of birth and age-at-arrival. ► Causal effect of EAL on native-immigrant wage gap robust to various specifications.
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English deficiency and the native-immigrant wage gap
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