Are there gender and country of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations?

By A. Adserà, Barry R. Chiswick. Social Science Research Network, 2007

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Assimilation of Immigrants in Spain: A Longitudinal Analysis (2009, background): “For instance, Adsera and Chiswick (2007) and Amuedo-Dorantes and de la Rica (2007a) show that immigrants coming from outside the EU-15 tend to earn 30% less than natives and face a higher unemployment rate (12.3 respect to 7% among natives in 2007).”
The Economic Situation of First and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom (2010, background): “There are studies that attempt to compare the performance of immigrants from the same source country in different destination countries (Adsera and Chiswick, 2007; De Coulon and Wadsworth, 2008) but the degree of overlap among the countries we consider is small. We focus on the comparison of the gap”
Labour segregation and immigrant and native-born wage distributions in Spain: an analysis using matched employer–employee data (2008, background): “Another potential source of this influence lies in the heterogeneityoftheself-selectionprocessundergonebyimmigrants,astheymayoriginateindifferingsegmentsoftheabilitydistributionacrosscountries(Borjas1987).In turn, there is abundant empirical evidence that corroborates that immigrants’ relative wagel”