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, published in the acclaimed journal Nature Human Behaviour, Are Skeie Hermansen and co-authors have studied the within-job gender pay inequality. Using linked employer-employee data from 15 countries, their findings show that the process of sorting people into different jobs account for substantially less of the gender pay differences than previously believed and that the within-job pay differences remain consequential.
In this working paper, Aleksander Madsen, Are Skeie Hermansen and co-author investigate the relationship between workplace concentration of immigrant-origin minorites and turnover among immigrants and second-generation children of immigrants. Using linked employer-employee data, from the Norwegian labor market, their findings supports social contract theories claiming that improved work environment and coworker support reduces turnover among immigrant-background workers.
In this working paper, 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 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. They also find that residential segregation is growing, with top earners and bottom earners increasingly living in different municipalities. The two are correlated and statistical modeling suggest that the primary causal effect is from work to residential segregation.
In this working paper, Are Skeie Hermansen and co-author focus on 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.
