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Skin Color Discrimination and Immigrant Pay

dc.contributor.authorHersch, Joni, 1956-
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-28T14:50:16Z
dc.date.available2013-12-28T14:50:16Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citation58 Emory L.J. 357 (2008)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/5843
dc.description.abstractIn "Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height," (Journal of Labor Economics 2008), I present strong evidence of a wage penalty to darker skin color among new legal immigrants to the United States. Immigrants with the lightest skin color earn on average 17 percent higher wages than comparable immigrants with the darkest skin color, taking into account Hispanic ethnicity, race, country of birth, education, English language proficiency, family background, and occupation in the source country. This current paper demonstrates that the penalty to darker skin color is not a spurious consequence of omitted variables bias. Instead, discrimination on the basis of skin color is the most likely explanation of the findings.en_US
dc.format.extent1 document (23 pages)en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherEmory Law Journalen_US
dc.subject.lcshImmigrants -- Salaries, etc.en_US
dc.subject.lcshDiscriminationen_US
dc.subject.lcshHuman skin color -- Economic aspectsen_US
dc.titleSkin Color Discrimination and Immigrant Payen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.publisher.uriwww.law.emory.edu/eljen_US
dc.identifier.ssrn-urihttp://ssrn.com/abstract=1327051


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