Immigrants’ wage growth and selective out-migration
Immigrants’ wage growth and selective out-migration
This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking selective out‐migration into account using administrative data from the Netherlands. Addressing a limitation in the previous literature, we address the potential endogeneity of immigrants’ labour supply and out‐migration decisions on their earning profiles using a correlated competing risk model. We distinguish between labour and family migrants, given their different labour market and out‐migration behaviours. Our findings show that accounting for selective labour supply is as important as accounting for selective out‐migration. Controlling only for out‐migration selectivity would underestimate immigrants’ wage growth, whilst controlling only for labour market selectivity would overestimate their wage growth. This shows that different selections are important for different types of migrants.
migration dynamics; labour market transitions; competing risks; immigrant assimilation; income growth
1065-1094
Bijwaard, Govert
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Wahba, Jackline
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October 2019
Bijwaard, Govert
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Wahba, Jackline
03ae9304-c329-40c6-9bfc-d91cfa9e7164
Bijwaard, Govert and Wahba, Jackline
(2019)
Immigrants’ wage growth and selective out-migration.
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 81 (5), .
(doi:10.1111/obes.12295).
Abstract
This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking selective out‐migration into account using administrative data from the Netherlands. Addressing a limitation in the previous literature, we address the potential endogeneity of immigrants’ labour supply and out‐migration decisions on their earning profiles using a correlated competing risk model. We distinguish between labour and family migrants, given their different labour market and out‐migration behaviours. Our findings show that accounting for selective labour supply is as important as accounting for selective out‐migration. Controlling only for out‐migration selectivity would underestimate immigrants’ wage growth, whilst controlling only for labour market selectivity would overestimate their wage growth. This shows that different selections are important for different types of migrants.
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Accepted/In Press date: 26 November 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 January 2019
Published date: October 2019
Keywords:
migration dynamics; labour market transitions; competing risks; immigrant assimilation; income growth
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/427410
ISSN: 0305-9049
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