An Equilibrium Search Model of the Labor Market Entry of Second-Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Danes

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Lene Kromann ()
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Lene Kromann: CEBR, Copenhagen

No 7257, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using a search model for Danish labor market entrants, we are one of the first studies to test whether second-generation immigrants have the same job-offer arrival and layoff rates as ethnic Danes have. We contribute to the search literature by incorporating matching as a way to ensure sub-sample homogeneity. Thus, we match second-generation immigrants to their ethnic Danish twins on the basis of parental characteristics and informal network quality. There are big differences before matching, but after matching, second-generation immigrants perform as well or better than their ethnic Dane counterparts do on the labor market, though not with respect to layoffs. This result is mainly driven by the group of high school graduates and those with a primary school education only. Second generation immigrants with vocational education, males in particular, face both significantly lower arrival rates when unemployed and significantly higher layoff rates than those of their ethnic Danish twins.

Keywords: matching; equilibrium search model; firm behavior; second-generation immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2013-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-dge, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published - published as "Differences in the labor market entry of second-generation immigrants and ethnic Danes" in IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:16

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