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

Table 1 Education, potential work experience and age, by ethnic-nativity groups

	Immigrants		Natives
	Non-white	White	Non-white	White
Mean
Education leaving age	19.98	19.66	18.96	17.51
Potential years of work experience	19.75	18.71	13.32	23.19
Age	39.71	38.35	32.29	40.69
Distribution
Leaving education at ages:
< 17 years of age [low]	0.24	0.25	0.33	0.56
17-19 years of age [medium]	0.26	0.29	0.28	0.22
20+ years of age [high]	0.50	0.46	0.39	0.21
Years of potential work experience:
<11 years	0.21	0.30	0.43	0.18
11-29 years	0.54	0.50	0.53	0.49
30+ years	0.21	0.20	0.04	0.33
N	12,600	14,326	5,275	296,106