The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in australia: Does unobserved heterogeneity matter?

Breunig, Robert; Hasan, Syed; Salehin, Mosfequs

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The immigrant wage gap and assimilation in australia: Does unobserved heterogeneity matter?

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2013

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Breunig, Robert

Hasan, Syed

Salehin, Mosfequs

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Immigrants to Australia are selected on observable characteristics. They may also differ from natives on unobservable characteristics such as ambition or motivation. If we account for unobservable differences, we find a wage gap for immigrant men from Eng

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10.1111/1475-4932.12075

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