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Close Topic OptionsImmigrants's Skin Tone Affects Earnings
- Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 2nd Feb, 2007 - 6:26pm
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On average, being one shade lighter has about the same effect as having an additional year of education
Immigrants's Skin Tone Affects Earnings
An issue of Colorism in the workplace. Immigrants who are taller and have light skin make more money than the ones that are shorter and they are dark-skinned.
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| NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Light-skinned immigrants in the United States make more money on average than those with darker complexions, and the chief reason appears to be discrimination, a researcher says. Joni Hersch, a law and economics professor at Vanderbilt University, looked at a government survey of 2,084 legal immigrants to the United States from around the world and found that those with the lightest skin earned an average of 8 percent to 15 percent more than similar immigrants with much darker skin. "On average, being one shade lighter has about the same effect as having an additional year of education," Hersch said. The study also found that taller immigrants earn more than shorter ones, with an extra inch of height associated with a 1 percent increase in income. |
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