Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

The aim of this paper is to analyze how female migrants fare in the Spanish labor market, a country that has experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment and the earning gap faced by this group, considering the intera...

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Autores principales:	Antón,José-Ignacio, Muñoz de Bustillo,Rafael, Carrera,Miguel
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2012
Materias:	Immigration Women Spain Unemployment Earnings
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-52862012000100003
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-528620120001000032012-07-12Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour marketAntón,José-IgnacioMuñoz de Bustillo,RafaelCarrera,Miguel Immigration Women Spain Unemployment Earnings The aim of this paper is to analyze how female migrants fare in the Spanish labor market, a country that has experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment and the earning gap faced by this group, considering the interaction between two potential sources of disadvantage fur migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women du face this double disadvantage. In both cases, we find an economically significant gap, at least fur migrants from developing countries. Regarding the former, the larger unemployment rate of female migrants is nut explained by observable characteristics. In the case of earnings differential, although human capital endowments play a relevant rule, both the unexplained earnings penalty associated with gender and migrant status slightly rise across the distribution of wages.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Chile. Departamento de EconomíaEstudios de economía v.39 n.1 20122012-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-52862012000100003en10.4067/S0718-52862012000100003
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description	The aim of this paper is to analyze how female migrants fare in the Spanish labor market, a country that has experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment and the earning gap faced by this group, considering the interaction between two potential sources of disadvantage fur migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women du face this double disadvantage. In both cases, we find an economically significant gap, at least fur migrants from developing countries. Regarding the former, the larger unemployment rate of female migrants is nut explained by observable characteristics. In the case of earnings differential, although human capital endowments play a relevant rule, both the unexplained earnings penalty associated with gender and migrant status slightly rise across the distribution of wages.
author	Antón,José-Ignacio Muñoz de Bustillo,Rafael Carrera,Miguel
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title	Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market
title_short	Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market
title_full	Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market
title_fullStr	Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market
title_full_unstemmed	Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market
title_sort	raining stones?: female immigrants in the spanish labour market
publisher	Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía
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Raining stones?: Female immigrants in the Spanish labour market

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