The Invisible Second Generation? Statistical Discrimination and Immigrant Stereotypes in Employment Processes in Norway

Midtbøen, Arnfinn H.

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2013.847784

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“…Drawing on this experience, informants were asked to reflect on the development of their industry over the past decades, with particular emphasis on the role of nativeborn and immigrant workers, respectively. In line with similar studies using employer interviews as a source of data to study how the skills of different groups are perceived and considered (e.g., Kirschenman and Neckerman 1991;Moss and Tilly 2001;Waldinger and Lichter 2003;Pager and Karafin 2009;Midtbøen 2014;Friberg and Midtbøen 2017), employers in this study were more than willing to share their views on the particular advantages and disadvantages characterizing different ethnic groups.…”

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The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State

Friberg

Midtbøen²

2018

International Migration Review

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This article explores how immigrant niches have emerged within two traditional working-class industries in Norway. Drawing on extensive case studies in urban and coastal areas, we analyze how employers perceive the availability and desirability of native-born and immigrant workers and discuss how these perceptions are related to underlying changes in the structure of employment. The article contributes to the literature by developing a general model of the formation of immigrant niches as well as pointing out the context-specific institutional conditions that explain how and why such niches emerge in the first place.

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The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State

Friberg

Midtbøen²

2018

International Migration Review

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“…On the one hand, they may prompt directly discriminatory behavior by employers. The methodologically most refined study to date to assess this mechanism, a job audit experiment accompanied by survey-research and group interviews, has found that immigrant Muslim-sounding names were significantly less likely to receive an interview than immigrant Christian-sounding names with the same set of qualifications (Adida et al, 2010; for qualitative evidence see also Midtboen, 2013). On the other hand, salient boundaries may prompt self-perceptions of belonging to a stigmatized group which, in turn, might make people less likely to even apply for jobs due to what Heath and Martin (2013: 1006) call a ''chill factor''.…”

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Explaining the Muslim employment gap in Western Europe: Individual-level effects and ethno-religious penalties

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2015

Social Science Research

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“…A classical scenario considers that while employers infer unobserved skills from observable educational qualifications, they are particularly bad at doing this for minority compared to majority workers (Aigner and Cain, 1977;Midtbøen, 2014).…”

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Income Advantages of Poorly Qualified Immigrant Minorities: Why School Dropouts of Turkish Origin Earn More in Germany

2015

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We investigate an often overlooked implication of the signaling model of statistical discrimination: if immigrant minorities' educational qualifications carry less signaling power, poorly-qualified minority members should experience positive statistical discrimination. We argue that the lower signaling power stems from disadvantages associated with insufficient language skills and lack of supportive parental resources, which prevent minority students from achieving those educational qualifications that would reflect their high motivation and ambition. Yet, if education counts less, so does its lack. Using data from the German Microcensus, we compare log hourly personal income of 1.5 th and 2 nd generation Spätaussiedler and persons of Turkish origin to that of native Germans. Using (semi-parametric) generalized additive models, we find solid support for our claim that poorly-qualified persons of Turkish origin experience income advantages; they frequently work in jobs for which they are underqualified. Once different frequencies of over-and undereducation are taken into account, no ethnic differences in educational returns remain. Our results extend to other comparable immigrant groups in Germany.

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The Invisible Second Generation? Statistical Discrimination and Immigrant Stereotypes in Employment Processes in Norway

Cited by 94 publications

References 44 publications

The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State

The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State

Explaining the Muslim employment gap in Western Europe: Individual-level effects and ethno-religious penalties

Income Advantages of Poorly Qualified Immigrant Minorities: Why School Dropouts of Turkish Origin Earn More in Germany

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