Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings

Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2011

Title: Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings

Immigrants on average perform worse than natives in the labor markets of most Western countries (OECD 2001). This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions encountered upon arrival. The paper finds substantial effects both of the state of the national labor market and of local unemployment rates

The analysis of effects at the local level exploits a governmental refugee settlement policy to get exogenous variation in local labor market conditions…

Author: Olof Åslund,Dan-Olof Rooth

Source: IFAU – Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation

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