eprintid: 1546290
rev_number: 19
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datestamp: 2021-06-18 14:39:56
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type: working_paper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: White, M
creators_name: Bryson, A
title: Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages?
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
keywords: migrants, migration, workplace wages, race, ethnicity, earnings, discrimination, low pay
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abstract: Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA migrants. However, the effects are no longer apparent when we condition on the ethnic complexion of employees at the workplace. Instead, the wage penalty is attached to the percentage of non-white employees, a finding that is consistent with employer discrimination on grounds of race, or lower worker bargaining power when employees are ethnically diverse.
date: 2017-02
publisher: IZA Institute of Labor Economics
official_url: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/10549/do-migrants-lower-workplace-wages
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1279841
lyricists_name: Bryson, Alexander
lyricists_id: ABRYS65
actors_name: Bryson, Alexander
actors_id: ABRYS65
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
series: IZA Discussion Paper
number: 10549
place_of_pub: Bonn, Germany
pages: 29
citation:        White, M;    Bryson, A;      (2017)    Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages?                    (IZA Discussion Paper  10549). IZA Institute of Labor Economics: Bonn, Germany.       Green open access   
 
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