Local Unemployment and the Earnings-Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Sweden: Evidence from Longitudinal Data, 1990-2000

No 277, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: The earnings-assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden was analyzed using eleven waves of panel-data, 1990-2000. Employment-probabilities and earnings were estimated simultaneously in a random-effects model, using a quasifixed effects to control for both individual effects and panel-selectivity due to missing earnings-information. Assuming equal-period effects produced bias which could distort the findings. To correct the bias, local unemployment-rates were used to proxy for changing economy-wide conditions. Labour-market outcomes differed consider- ably across immigrant arrival cohorts, region and country of origin, and educational levels.

Keywords: Immigrants; earnings-assimilation; unbalanced panel; selection-bias; random-effects; Mundlak's formulation; local unemployment-rates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2007-12-05, Revised 2007-01-21
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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