Do When and Where Matter? Initial Labour Market Conditions and Immigrant Earnings

Autor:	Dan-Olof Rooth, Olof Åslund
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Factor market Economics and Econometrics Labour economics Earnings media_common.quotation_subject Secondary labor market Refugee fungi Immigration Boom Recession Unemployment Economics health care economics and organizations media_common
Zdroj:	The Economic Journal. 117:422-448
ISSN:	1468-0297 0013-0133
DOI:	10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02024.x
Popis:	This article investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment of labour market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find that early earnings assimilation depends crucially on a favourable national labour market. Exposure to high local unemployment rates also affects individuals for at least ten years. To handle the issue of selective migration, we compare refugees entering Sweden during a severe and unexpected recession to refugees arriving during a preceding economic boom. The analysis of effects at the local level exploits a governmental refugee settlement policy to get exogenous variation in local labour market conditions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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