Expert finds access to high-paying jobs—not unequal pay for the same job—is the biggest driver of immigrant wage gaps

Immigrants in the United States earn 10.6% less than similarly educated U.S.-born workers, largely because they are concentrated in lower-paying industries, occupations and companies, according to a major new study published in Nature, co-authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst sociologist who studies equal opportunity in employment.

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