Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance
41 Pages Posted: 15 Feb 2016
Abstract
While integration policies typically focus on labor market entry, we present evidence showing that immigrants from low‐income countries tend to have more precarious jobs, and face more severe consequences of job loss, than natives. For immigrant workers in the Norwegian private sector, the probability of job loss in the near future is twice that of native workers. Using corporate bankruptcy for identification, we find that the adverse effects of job loss on future employment and earnings are more than twice as large for immigrant employees.
Keywords: migration, job loss, firm closure, unemployment
JEL Classification: F22, H55, J24, J65
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