The effect of deficiency at English on female immigrants’ wage in the UK: correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

June 1, 2021

Summary:

We investigate how English as Additional Language (EAL) affects the wage gap among foreign-born female immigrants in the UK. To deal with endogeneity and measurement error of EAL and self-selection into employment we implement a 3-step estimation (TSE) procedure suggested by Wooldridge, which deliver consistent and asymptotically normal estimators. We find a large and statistically significant causal effect of EAL on the wage gap.

Published in

Applied Economics Letters

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 28 , p.349 -353

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2020.1753873

ISSN

13504851

Subjects

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