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

Table 8 OLS and QR results for immigrant country of origin decompositions ^a , 1997-2009

	OLS	Quantiles
		0.10	0.25	0.50	0.75	0.90
(a) English-speaking immigrants
Total differential	−0.290***	−0.184***	−0.210***	−0.259***	−0.306***	−0.340***
Characteristic	−0.250***	−0.166***	−0.192***	−0.231***	−0.275***	−0.306***
Coefficient	−0.041***	−0.018	−0.019**	−0.027***	−0.031***	−0.033*
(as % of total differential)	(14%)	(10%)	(10%)	(10%)	(10%)	(10%)
(b) non-English-speaking immigrants
Total differential	−0.040***	0.034***	0.028***	−0.010	−0.053***	−0.082***
Characteristic	−0.164***	−0.106***	−0.152***	−0.203***	−0.261***	−0.313***
Coefficient	0.124***	0.140***	0.180***	0.193***	0.203***	0.231***
(as % of total differential)	(43%)	(49%)	(54%)	(49%)	(44%)	(42%)

*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.10. Number of observations: 307,028 (panel a); 320,207 (panel b). 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 English-speaking immigrant is the reference group.