Raúl Ramos

Raúl Ramos

Raúl Ramos
Position

Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Barcelona & IZA Research Fellow

Immigrant workers earn 29% less than people born in Spain

In Spain, immigrant employees earn 29% less than other workers, according to a study published in Nature. This gap is comparable to that observed in Canada, but greater than that of other European countries in the study, such as Germany, Norway and France (19-20%), and much higher than the gap observed in the United States (10%) and Sweden (7%). ‘The segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paid jobs accounts for approximately three-quarters of the overall wage differences between immigrants and natives,’ the study states.

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