Job Loss and Immigrant Labour Market Performance
28 Pages Posted: 7 Dec 2017
Date Written: January 2018
Abstract
While integration policies typically focus on labour 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 more than twice that of native workers. Using corporate bankruptcy filings for identification, we find that the adverse effects of job loss on future employment and earnings are twice as large for immigrant employees from low‐income source countries.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Bratsberg, Bernt and Raaum, Oddbjørn and Røed, Knut, Job Loss and Immigrant Labour Market Performance (January 2018). Economica, Vol. 85, Issue 337, pp. 124-151, 2018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3083172 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12244
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