The immigrant–native earnings gap across the earnings distribution

The Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap across the Earnings Distribution

Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution

Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be lower at the lower end of the earnings distribution than at the upper end. The findings also indicate that mobility increases over t...

The Visible Minority Earnings Gap Across Generations of Canadians∗

To what extent the earnings gaps facing Canada’s visible minorities reflect discrimination is a question of tremendous policy interest. This paper argues that failing to account for the limited Canadian ancestry of visible minorities overestimates discrimination if immigrant assimilation is an intergenerational process. Using the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, weekly earnings, conditional on ...

How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses

How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses This paper applies the quantile regression methodology to the study of the determinants of the distribution of earnings among the native born and immigrants in the United States and Australia. The analysis for immigrants is performed separately for those from Englishspeaking and non-English speaking origins. Using Cens...

Marriage and Money: Variations across the Earnings Distribution**

This paper uses Australian data from the Negotiating the Lifecourse Project (1996/97) to investigate the impact of marriage on men’s and women’s earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is constant for men and women at different points on the conditional earnings distribution by using robust and quantile regression techniques. We find no assoc...