Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark

By Leif Husted, Helena Skyt Nielsen, M. Rosholm, Nina Smith. Social Science Research Network, 2001

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Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are estimated jointly in a random effects model which corrects for unobserved cohort and individual effects and panel selectivity due to missing wage information. The results show that immigrants assimilate partially to Danes, but the assimilation process differs between refugees and non-refugees.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Anna Piil Damm
2. Nina Smith
3. Leif Husted
4. Helena Skyt Nielsen
5. M. Rosholm
6. M. Foged
7. Giovanni Peri

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Anna Piil Damm
2. Nina Smith
3. M. Rosholm
4. Helena Skyt Nielsen
5. M. Foged
6. Giovanni Peri

Citations in the corpus

• Qualifications, discrimination, or assimilation? An extended framework for analysing immigrant wage gaps (2004, methodology): “Earlier studies have shown that the experience profile is best modeled using a linear spline, because the often used quadratic form is not sufficiently flexible (Husted et al., 2001).”
• Ethnic Enclaves and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence (2009, background): “Due to a high degree of central wage bargaining and high minimum wages relative to countries outside Scandinavia, wage assimilation of immigrants, once employed, constitutes less of a challenge (see e.g. Husted et al. 2001; Rosholm et al. 2000).”
• The school-to-work transition of 2nd generation immigrants in Denmark (2003, background): “After the first oil crisis in 1973, the immigration pattern changed and as in many other European countries the immigration of ‘guest workers’ stopped, while refugee immigration grew considerably, especially after the mid-1980s, see Husted et al. (2001) .”
• Neighborhood Quality and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Quasi-Random Neighborhood Assignment of Immigrants (2013, background): “…were also very low, DKK 62,318 (in 2000-prices).29 Their poor labor market outcomes six years after immigration reflect that non-Western immigrants in general – and refugees in particular – have a very slow labor market assimilation process in Denmark (Husted et al., 2001; Damm and Rosholm, 2010).”
• Employment, Wages, and the Economic Cycle: Differences between Immigrants and Natives (2009, unknown): “…US, Baker and Benjamin (1994) for Canada, Edin et al. (2000) for Sweden, or Bell (1997) for the UK; for papers investigating immigrants’ employment and unemployment dynamics see, for instance, Chiswick et al. (1997) for the US, Wheatley Price (2001) for the UK, or Husted et al. (2001) for Denmark.”