Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann ()

No 963, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light on the native-migrant differences in economic outcomes, we investigate the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain this finding by arguing that this group exerts a relatively low search effort and that it has reservation wages which are moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants.

Keywords: migration; ethnicity; ethnic identity; ethnosizer; unemployment; job search; reservation wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 p.
Date: 2009
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