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Immigrants, Labour Market Performance and Social Insurance

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ID9717752
AuthorsBernt Bratsberg (0000-0002-6874-3412, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research), Oddbjørn Raaum (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research), Knut Røed (0000-0002-9280-6145, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research)
Year2014
Volume124
Issue580
PagesF644-F683
Publication date2014-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/ecoj.12182
OpenAlexW2112336164
LanguageEN
Citations received59
References cited27

Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long‐term labour market and social insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from high‐income countries performed as natives, while labour migrants from low‐income source countries had declining employment rates and increasing disability programme participation over the lifecycle. Refugees and family migrants assimilated during the initial period upon arrival but labour market convergence halted after a decade and was accompanied by rising social insurance rates. For the children of labour migrants of the 1970s, we uncover evidence of intergenerational assimilation in education, earnings and fertility

Demographic economics · Earnings · Economics · Fertility · Immigration · Labour economics · Longitudinal data · Political science · Population · Refugee · Social insurance · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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