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Title: Wage Differentials for Immigrant Women in the United States: The Heightened Effect of Gender and Ethnic Interaction
Citation Type: Conference Paper
Publication Year: 2004
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Abstract: The United States is one of only a handful of nations in which immigrant womenoutnumber immigrant men. These women corne from increasingly diverse regions,thereby bringing considerably different skills to the U.S. workforce. However, thequestion of how gender and ethnicity interact with each other to affect the economicperformance of female immigrants remains especially understudied. Thus, this paperaims at providing some insight into this formerly neglected dimension of femaleimmigrant performance. It examines the sources of wage differentials betweenimmigrant females, and other groups in the U.S. labor force, paying particular attention toearnings inequalities created by the interaction of gender and ethnicity. OLS regressionsare used to carry out the analysis. A random sample of 100,000 immigrants and 50,000natives is drawn from the 5% 2000 IPUMS data set. Their salary and wage income isregressed on several variables accounting for differences in human capital, gender andnationality, including interactions between gender and ethnicity. The results show thatfemales and immigrants have relatively low wages because of their sex and country ofbirth. In addition, interactions between gender and ethnicity are found to be significantdeterminants of wages.
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Authors: Garg, Mahi; Seeborg, Michael
Conference Name: Fifteenth Annual John Wesley Powell G Illinois Wesleyan University Student Research Conference
Publisher Location: Wesleyan University Science Commons, Bloomington, Illinois
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
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