Wage differences between immigrants and natives in Austria. The role of literacy skills.

Autor/inn/en	Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Gnan, Phillipp
Titel	Wage differences between immigrants and natives in Austria. The role of literacy skills. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Lohnunterschied zwischen Einwanderern und Inländern in Österreich. Die Rolle von Lese- und Schreibfähigkeiten.
Quelle	In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 46 (2020) 19, S. 4010-4042 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1369-183X; 1469-9451
DOI	10.1080/1369183X.2018.1526062
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Kompetenz; Kompetenzmessung; Bildungsertrag; Lesen; Schreiben; Inländer; Migrationshintergrund; Berufsgruppe; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Erste Generation; Österreich
Abstract	"This paper analyses the impact of literacy skills on wage differences between natives and immigrants, using Austria as a case study. We show that, for both groups, literacy skills are an important determinant of the hourly wage. In the second step, we show that differences in proficiency with respect to literacy can explain more than 30% of the total wage gap of 11 log points between natives and immigrants. When adding literacy skills to the wage decomposition, the unexplained part vanishes almost completely, suggesting that the wage difference between immigrants and natives can, to a large extent, be explained. The importance of literacy skills in explaining wage differences between natives and immigrants is robust across several sensitivity tests." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/1