Immigration History, Entry Jobs, and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants

Laura Ansala (), Olof Aslund () and Matti Sarvimäki ()
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Laura Ansala: City of Helsinki
Olof Aslund: Uppsala University

No 13089, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between past immigration experiences of the host country and the way new immigrants enter the labor market. We focus on two countries—Finland and Sweden—that have similar formal institutions but starkly different immigration histories. In both countries, immigrants tend to find their first jobs in low-paying establishments, where the manager and colleagues share their ethnic background. The associations between background characteristics, time to first job, other entry job characteristics, earnings dynamics and job stability are also remarkably similar. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the host country's immigration history plays a limited role in shaping the integration process.

Keywords: ethnic segregation; labor market integration; immigration; entry jobs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2020-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-his, nep-int and nep-lab
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Published - published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (3), 581-604

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Working Paper: Immigration History, Entry Jobs, and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants (2020)
Working Paper: Immigration history, entry jobs, and the labor market integration of immigrants (2018)
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