Long-term Outcomes of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs: Labor Market Transitions and Job Durations for Immigrants

Tyra Ekhaugen ()
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Tyra Ekhaugen: Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Postal: Gaustadalléen 21 , N-0349 Oslo, Norway

No 10/2007, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper employs a flexible dependent hazard rate model to examine the transition to work, job durations and subsequent transitions into and out of the welfare system for all the individuals who participated on a vocational rehabilitation program in Norway during 1995-2002. The effect of being a non-western immigrant on the probability of finding, keeping, and re-finding a job is shown to differ substantially across genders, being particularly favorable for women relatively recently arrived from Africa, Asia or Eastern Europe. I find substantial non-western immigrant business cycle sensitivity regarding the transition(s) to employment but not to unemployment.

Keywords: Vocational rehabilitation; labor market transitions: job duration; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2007-06-15
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