We are excited to share SCOOP Fellow Dr. Zoltán Lippényi’s important new study published in Nature, “Immigrant-native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs."
With his colleagues, Zoltán has found that immigrants earn an average of 15% less than Dutch people with the same level of education and without a migrant background. Furthermore, immigrants are paid 5% less for exactly the same work as Dutch people with the same employer. This means that immigrants are segregated into lower-paying jobs.
The study was conducted by sociologists from nine different countries, including the Netherlands, the United States, Denmark, Sweden, and France, who compared immigrants’ and their children’s wages to those of workers who weren’t from migrant backgrounds.
You can read the open access article here.
Zoltán was also featured in a de Volkskrant article, “Migranten krijgen minder betaald dan Nederlanders, ook bij precies hetzelfde werk,” (Migrants are paid less than Dutch people, even for exactly the same work). Zoltán tells the journalist that ‘We need to look at how we can optimally utilize the skills of migrants so they can find work at their level. This can be achieved, for example, by offering language training and labor market orientation to refugees from an early age.’
Congratulations Dr. Lippényi on an important piece of research!
