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Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps

Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001

In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the ?assimilation literature? and the ?discrimination literature?. We estimate...

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Dropping out of School? A Competing Risks Analysis of Young Immigrants? Progress in the Educational System

Jakobsen, Vibeke; Rosholm, Michael - 2003

This paper analyses the drop-out and graduation behaviour of young 1st generation immigrants enrolled in a qualifying education in the period 1984-1999. The descriptive analyses show that the low educational achievements among young immigrants compared to young ethnic Danes found in other...

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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I: Theory

Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2003

This paper formulates a partial search model in which unemployed individuals simultaneously search for job and location of residence. Most importantly, we show that, ceteris paribus, a decrease in current place utility increases the transition rate into a new location of residence and the...

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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence

Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2003

How do dispersal policies affect labour market integration of refugee immigrants subjected to such policy? To investigate this, we estimate the effects of location characteristics and the average effect of geographical mobility on the hazard rate into first job of refugee immigrants subjected to...

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The Employment Effects of Active Social Policy

Bolvig, Iben; Jensen, Peter; Rosholm, Michael - 2003

We analyse the effects of active social policy (ASP) on the dynamics of welfare dependence. We evaluate the impact of various ASP measures (employment and training) on the duration of welfare spells and subsequent employment spells, based on data from Denmark. The results show that employment...

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Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants

Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001

We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation immigrants and young ethnic Danes. The main findings are that parental capital has strong positive...

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Looking beyond the bridge: How temporary agency employment affects labor market outcomes

Jahn, Elke J.; Rosholm, Michael - 2010

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers …. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even …

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