Local labor markets and earnings of refugee immigrants

Godøy, Anna Aasen

doi:10.1007/s00181-016-1067-7

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“…Forskningslitteraturen har identifisert effekter av lokale arbeidsforhold ved inntreden på arbeidsmarkedet (Raaum & Røed 2006, for Norge), også for innvandrergrupper spesielt. Mens lav initial arbeidsledighet fremmer sysselsetting blant flyktninger i Sverige opptil ti år etter ankomst (Åslund & Rooth 2007), tyder en ny norsk studie på at slike effekter er svake i Norge (Godøy 2016). Tabell 2 viser at omkring en av tre mannlige flyktninger er sysselsatt i bosettingsåret eller året etter, mens andelen kun er 12,5 prosent blant kvinner.…”

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Flyktninger på det norske arbeidsmarkedet

Bratsberg¹,

Raaum²,

Røed³

2016

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SammendragI likhet med andre europeiske land mottok Norge i fjor et stort antall asylsøkere, og bosettingstallene forventes å bli høye i årene som kommer. Dette gir åpenbare utfordringer knyttet til integrering i det norske arbeidsmarkedet. I denne artikkelen undersøker vi hva vi kan laere av historiske erfaringer for tidligere kohorter av bosatte flyktninger fra land utenfor Europa. En hovedkonklusjon er at ikke-europeiske flyktninger har hatt store problemer med å oppnå høy sysselsetting, og at mange derfor har blitt avhengige av helserelaterte trygdeytelser. Med ambisjon om å oppnå sysselsettingsrater i naerheten av det vi observerer for norskfødte, følger behov for politikkendringer.Nøkkelord: flyktninger, sysselsetting, helserelaterte trygdeytelser, utflytting, familieinnvandring Abstract: Refugees in the Norwegian labour marketIn line with other European countries, last year Norway received a large number of asylum seekers. Settlement figures, which are expected to be high in coming years, present obvious challenges to integration in the Norwegian labour market. Universitetsforlaget | www.idunn.no/spaThis article is downloaded from www.idunn.no. © 2016 Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for non-commercial use, provided the original author and source are credited.SØKELYS PÅ ARBEIDSLIVET | NR 3 | 2016 | ÅRGANG 33 | 185-207 DOI: 10.18261/issn.1504-7989-2016 In this article, we examine what can be learned from the experiences of previous refugee cohorts from countries outside Europe. One main conclusion is that nonEuropean refugees have had difficulties achieving high employment rates, many becoming dependent on health-related social insurance. With an ambition of reaching employment rates comparable to those of Norwegian born, there is need for policy change.

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Flyktninger på det norske arbeidsmarkedet

Bratsberg¹,

Raaum²,

Røed³

2016

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“…The ethnic enclave perspective argues that living close to (co-ethnic) immigrants may provide access to networks important for jobs, housing, and other nonpecuniary community resources (Clark 1992;Logan et al 2002). Research from Scandinavia has found that immigrants may benefit economically from living close to other immigrants and that proximity to co-ethnics matter for immigrants' settlement patterns (Aradhya et al 2017;Godøy 2017;Åslund et al 2011).…”

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Spatial Assimilation at a Halt? Contextual Mobility across Immigrant Generations in the Norwegian Welfare State

Hermansen¹,

Hundebo²,

Birkelund³

2020

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We study contextual mobility and neighborhood attainment among immigrant descendants using administrative data from Norway. We find that immigrant descendants often remain in adult neighborhood contexts—characterized by relative economic disadvantage and comparatively few native-origin residents—that largely resemble their childhood neighborhoods. Intergenerational stability is strongest among descendants of immigrants from Pakistan, the Middle East, and Africa. Further, group-level differences in individual socioeconomic attainment, family background, and characteristics of their childhood neighborhoods account for a substantial part of the adult native-immigrant gaps in neighborhood-level economic composition, but less so for neighborhood-level proximity to native-origin residents. The role of childhood residential segregation is most important in accounting for adult native-immigrant gaps in neighborhood attainment. Our findings offer only partial support for spatial assimilation theory—which predicts that acculturation and socioeconomic progress will lead to a convergence in neighborhood profiles relative to natives across immigrant generations—but may reflect external barriers in the housing market or persistent in-group preferences for (co-ethnic) immigrant neighbors.

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“…They find that poor initial economic conditions can decrease wages for refugees up to 10 years after migration. Godøy (2017) also examined refugees in Norway and found no evidence of a long-lasting wage scarring effect.…”

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Consequences of immigrating during a recession: Evidence from the US Refugee Resettlement program

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2020

IZA Journal of Development and Migration

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Are there long-term labor consequences in migrating to the US during a recession? For most immigrants, credibly estimating this effect is difficult because of selective migration. Some immigrants may not move if economic conditions are not favorable. However, identification is possible for refugees as their arrival dates are exogenously determined through the US Refugee Resettlement program. A one percentage point increase in the arrival national unemployment rate reduces refugee wages by 1.98% and employment probability by 1.57 percentage points after 5 years.

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Local labor markets and earnings of refugee immigrants

Cited by 42 publications

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Flyktninger på det norske arbeidsmarkedet

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Spatial Assimilation at a Halt? Contextual Mobility across Immigrant Generations in the Norwegian Welfare State

Consequences of immigrating during a recession: Evidence from the US Refugee Resettlement program

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