Webpages tagged with «segregation»

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, published in the American Journal of Sociology, Are Skeie Hermansen and co-authors study the evolving isolation of higher earners from other employees. They do this using linked employer-employee data from eleven countries. Their findings show a growing workplace isolation of top earners' exposure to bottom earners. 

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 working paper, Are Skeie Hermansen and co-authors examine the extent to which immigrant-native earnings differences reflects differential sorting into lower-paid jobs or unequal pay when doing the same work for the same employers. Their findings can be read below. 

In this article, Are Skeie Hermansen uses heat plots to visualize differences in ethnic and socioeconomic characteristics of workplace contexts by immigrant background. This reveals a striking overall pattern of intergenerational assimilation of which further details can be read below.