Liability-of-foreignness effects on job success of immigrant job seekers

Arbeitspapier

We examined the liability-of-foreignness (LOF) hypothesis for immigrant and native job seekers by analyzing a national dataset that tracks their use of job-search methods and their associated job outcomes in the Canadian labor market. To our knowledge this is the first empirical test of LOF at the individual-level while controlling for variables at multiple levels. We found support for LOF when job applicants used the rich media job-search methods of social networks and recruitment agencies, but not when they used the lean media of newspaper ads and the internet. Study limitations, implications, and future research are discussed.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6742

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Labor Discrimination ; Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
• Thema: liability-of-foreignness ; immigration policy ; levels of analysis ; job success ; labor market ; Migranten ; Bevölkerung ; Arbeitsuche ; Erwerbsverlauf ; Schätzung ; Kanada

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Fang, Tony ; Samnani, Al-Karim ; Novicevic, Milorad M. ; Bing, Mark N.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62577
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ