Can Differences in Characteristics Explain Ethnic Wage Gap in Latvia?
Economics and Business 2017
Kārlis Vilerts, Oļegs Krasnopjorovs

We used anonymized micro data from Labour Force Survey to estimate the ethnic wage gap in Latvia and find the factors that explain it. We found that a notable ethnic wage gap still exists in Latvia with non-Latvians earning 10 % less than Latvians in 2015. The results of Oaxaca-Ransom decomposition show that approximately two thirds of the ethnic wage gap are explained by differences in characteristics with the most important effects in favour of Latvians caused by segregation in better paying occupational groups, having Latvian citizenship and better education (higher education levels and more favourable segregation by education fields). This was partly offset by favourable segregation in sectors for non-Latvians. Quantile regressions show that ethnic wage gap is statistically significant in all deciles of wage distribution.


Atslēgas vārdi
Discrimination, ethnic wage gap, income inequality, Oaxaca-Ransom decomposition
DOI
10.1515/eb-2017-0001

Vilerts, K., Krasnopjorovs, O. Can Differences in Characteristics Explain Ethnic Wage Gap in Latvia?. Economics and Business, 2017, 30, 5.-15.lpp. ISSN 2256-0386. e-ISSN 2256-0394. Pieejams: doi:10.1515/eb-2017-0001

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