2024

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.