Table 6 OLS results for logarithmic gross hourly wage decompositions

From: From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

	By timeframe ^a			By language ^a
	1993-2009	1997	2009	English-speaking	non-English-speaking
Total differential	−0.059***	−0.034*	0.087**	−0.290***	−0.040***
	(0.005)	(0.020)	(0.017)	(0.009)	(0.006)
Characteristic	−0.140***	−0.096***	−0.086***	−0.250***	−0.164***
	(0.004)	(0.015)	(0.011)	(0.006)	(0.005)
Coefficient	0.081***	0.057***	0.173***	−0.041***	0.124***
	(0.005)	(0.017)	(0.017)	(0.008)	(0.006)
Coefficient components
Education	0.412***	0.406***	0.405***	0.224***	0.461***
	(0.017)	(0.063)	(0.055)	(0.038)	(0.019)
Experience	0.184***	0.230**	0.265***	0.018	0.261***
	(0.021)	(0.093)	(0.067)	(0.047)	(0.025)
Experience sqd./100	−0.071***	−0.073	−0.126***	0.033	−0.112***
	(0.012)	(0.053)	(0.038)	(0.026)	(0.014)
Non-white	0.018***	0.029***	0.014*	0.028***	0.009*
	(0.002)	(0.010)	(0.007)	(0.003)	(0.004)
Married	0.046***	0.095***	0.045***	0.034***	0.050***
	(0.005)	(0.020)	(0.016)	(0.009)	(0.006)
Part-time	−0.057***	−0.044	−0.020	−0.022	−0.053***
	(0.014)	(0.050)	(0.036)	(0.036)	(0.015)
Industry	0.026***	0.040***	0.025**	−0.071***	−0.013**
	(0.009)	(0.013)	(0.010)	(0.009)	(0.006)
Region	−0.005**	−0.006	0.004	−0.016***	−0.010***
	(0.002)	(0.006)	(0.005)	(0.004)	(0.002)
Year	−0.001	-	-	0.126***	0.087***
	(0.014)			(0.016)	(0.010)
Constant	−0.536***	−0.667***	−0.526***	−0.579***	−0.706***
	(0.040)	(0.118)	(0.095)	(0.077)	(0.038)
N	328,307	26,946	22,368	307,028	320,207

Standard errors in parentheses. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.10. The total differential is equal to the characteristic (‘explained’) and coefficient (‘unexplained’) portions of the wage gap and any differences are due to rounding.
^a UK-born is the reference group.

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