Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Arbeitspapier

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models. Compared to natives with the same observable and unobservable characteristics, unemployed migrants do not find less stable positions but they need more time to find these jobs. The probability of leaving unemployment also varies strongly between ethnicities, while first and second generation Turks are identified as the major problem group. Therefore, policy should concentrate on the job finding process of Turkish migrants to fight their disadvantages on the labor market.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 617

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies
• Subject: Unemployment duration ; employment stability ; bivariate hazard rate models ; migration ; ethnicity ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit ; Vergleich ; Deutsche ; Migranten ; Ökonometrisches Modell ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Uhlendorff, Arne ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18510
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