Indicator history

The Origins and Trajectories (TeO) study shows that overall immigrants and their descendants receive an average hourly wage lower than the majority population (18%,15%, 14%, 13% less, for example, for immigrants and descendants of immigrants from Turkey, sub-Saharan Africa,  other countries of the EU27, Algeria accordingly). This inequality can be explained by both individual characteristics (age, qualifications, place of residence, family composition), characteristics of employment, the characteristics specific to immigrants (use of language, nationality, length of time in France) and, finally, by occupational category. However, when monitoring structural effects associated with individual characteristics and employment, although 'the differences in earnings of immigrants with the majority disappear among women', they persist 'for men from sub-Saharan Africa and South-east Asia and are wider than for the descendants of immigrants'.