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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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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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