Webpages tagged with «ethnic inequality»

In this article, published in Social Forces, Are Skeie Hermansen and Mats Lillehagen investigate workplace segregation and assimilation among immigrants and their descendants. Using linked employer-employee data from Norway, the study shows a sharp decline in workplace segregation across immigrant generations. Compared to the immigrant generation, members of the second generation gain improved access to workplaces in the mainstream economy, characterized by better-paid jobs and higher shares of non-migrant native coworkers.

In this article, JooHee Han and Are Skeie Hermansen uses linked employer-employee data from Norway to investigate immigrant-native wage gaps across immigrant generations and market segments. Their findings can be read below. 

In this article, Mats Lillehagen and co-author uses Norwegian administrative data on complete birth cohorts to examine ethnic inequalities in relative transition rates from education to work. They find clear evidence of ethnic inequalities in transition rates.