Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Maré David 
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Maré
Author-Email: dave.mare@motu.org.nz
Author-Workplace-Name: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
Author-Name: Richard Fabling
Author-X-Name-First: Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fabling
Author-Email: richard.fabling@xtra.co.nz
Author-Workplace-Name: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
Title: Firm productivity and ethnic wages
Abstract: We estimate relative wage discrimination for ethnic and migrant groups in New Zealand, using linked employer-employee and firm-level productivity data, and comparing each group’s contribution to output with their share of their firm’s wage bill. We find that wage discrimination is relatively favourable for European migrants and Asian/MELAA employees, and relatively unfavourable for M?ori, Pacific, and NZ-born European employees, with variation across NZ-born, recent migrants, and longer-term migrants. We present pooled and firm-fixed effects estimates of discrimination, highlighting distinct within-firm and between-firm patterns.
Length: 41 pages
Creation-Date: 2025-09
File-URL: https://motu-www.motu.org.nz/wpapers/25_08.pdf
Number: 25_08
Classification-JEL: J30, J15, J71, J42 
Keywords: Earnings; productivity; M?ori; ethnicity
Handle: RePEc:mtu:wpaper:25_08