The Economics of Immigration 2nd Edition by Cynthia Bansak

Exercise 1

Examine the data in Table 6.7 on UK immigrants by ethnicity and generation. The data are from the British Labour Force Survey for the period 1993-2007. The data are the percentage difference in hourly wages between immigrant/ethnic groups and second-plus generation whites. The estimates were calculated by Yann Algan et al. (2010) and take education and potential experience into account. What patterns do you see in the data? Do the data suggest intergenerational progress? How does the fact that these data are (essentially) from a single cross section affect your interpretation of them?