Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Baum, Christopher F.
Author-Email: kit.baum@bc.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Boston College, and DIW Berlin
Author-Name: Lööf, Hans
Author-Email: hans.loof@indek.kth.se
Author-Workplace-Name: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm
Author-Name: Stephan, Andreas
Author-Email: Andreas.Stephan@ju.se
Author-Workplace-Name: Jönköping University, and DIW Berlin
Author-Name: Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Author-Email: zimmermann@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, and CEPR, GLO
Title: Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Abstract: Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable
	natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish
	employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between
	established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by
	occupational sorting into cognitive and manual tasks. Within
	occupations, it can be largely explained by differences in work
	experience. The identification strategy relies on a control group of
	matched natives with the same characteristics as the refugees, using
	panel data for 2003–2013 to capture unobserved heterogeneity.
Classification-JEL: C23, F22, J24, J6, O15
Keywords: refugees, wage earnings gap, Blinder - Oaxaca decomposition,
	employer - employee data, coarsened exact matching, correlated random
	effects model
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20200527
Number: 2020-023
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2020/wp2020-023.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2020023