Skin Color Discrimination and Immigrant Pay
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My article, Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height, presents strong evidence that darker skin color is associated with lower wages for new legal immigrants to the United States. Taking into account education, English language proficiency, occupation in the source country, and family background, as well as Hispanic ethnicity, race, and country of birth, I found that immigrants with the lightest skin color earn, on average, 17% higher wages than comparable immigrants with the darkest skin color. This Essay addresses to what extent this pay disparity associated with skin color is evidence of employment discrimination.
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Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height
Using data from the New Immigrant Survey 2003, this article shows that skin color and height affect wages among new lawful immigrants to the United States, controlling for education, English language proficiency, occupation in source country, family background, ethnicity, race, and country of birth. Immigrants with the lightest skin color earn on average 17% more than comparable immigrants with...
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تاریخ انتشار 2009