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When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State

Bratsberg, Bernt - 2007

We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s diverge significantly from those of native comparison persons. During the first years after arrival almost all of the immigrants worked and their employment rate exceeded that...

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Immigrants, Labor Market Performance, and Social Insurance

Bratsberg, Bernt - 2014

Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long‐term labor market and social insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from high-income countries performed as natives, while labor migrants from low‐income source countries had...

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Disability in the Welfare State : An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?

Bratsberg, Bernt - 2010

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements … percent of all new disability insurance claims. We conclude that unemployment and disability insurance are close substitutes …

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Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance

Bratsberg, Bernt - 2016

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...

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