Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance

Arbeitspapier

While integration policies typically focus on labor market entry, we present evidence showing that immigrants from low‐income countries tend to have more precarious jobs, and face more severe consequences of job loss, than natives. For immigrant workers in the Norwegian private sector, the probability of job loss in the near future is twice that of native workers. Using corporate bankruptcy for identification, we find that the adverse effects of job loss on future employment and earnings are more than twice as large for immigrant employees.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9729

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Social Security and Public Pensions ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
• Subject: migration ; job loss ; firm closure ; unemployment

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bratsberg, Bernt ; Raaum, Oddbjørn ; Røed, Knut
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/141488
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET