Mats Lillehagen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3879724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mats Lillehagen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mats |
| FAMILY NAME | Lillehagen |
| SIGNATURE | LILLEHAGEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3900-3295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Same neighbourhood, same employer? Residential proximity and workplace concentration among immigrants
Living near one another can channel immigrants toward workplaces through social connections and information flow, shared local opportunity structures, and other residentially patterned pathways, yet few studies link residential proximity to employment outcomes among immigrants and their children. Using Norwegian linked employer–employee administrative data with detailed residential locations, we study how neighbourhood co-residence is tied to wor…
Educational sorting and ethnic inequality in occupational prestige among children of immigrants
This study investigates the occupational prestige of children of immigrants compared to natives in Norway, focusing on the first job after graduation. Using high-quality registry data from 2003 to 2014 ( N = 530,340), the analysis examines ethnic disparities in occupational prestige for six origin-based groups: African, Indian, Pakistani, Turkish, Vietnamese and European. The findings reveal that children of immigrants generally perform similarly…
Det porøse selvet og moderniteten
Hvor slutter jeg, og hvor begynner verden? Tegnes denne grensen opp forskjellig av ulike mennesker og kulturer? Finnes det en spesifikt moderne måte å sette opp en grense mellom en selv og verden på, slik toneangivende antropologer og filosofer nylig har hevdet? I artikkelen svarer vi på disse spørsmålene ved å undersøke en norsk alternativ podkast og ved å analysere hvordan nyspirituelle på paradoksale måter kombinerer førmoderne og moderne erfa…
Entering the mainstream economy? Workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation
Why do foreign-born immigrant workers often concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces? Do immigrants’ native-born children—who typically acquire better language skills, education, and country-specific knowledge—experience improved access to workplaces in the mainstream economy? Using economy-wide linked employer–employee administrative data from Norway, we analyze both ethnic and economic workplace segregation across immigrant generation…
Job mobility, reallocation and wage growth
Job reallocation is a key driver of aggregate wage growth, but its role in different economic systems remains understudied. This paper takes a comparative view and analyses the role of job mobility in job reallocation and aggregate wage growth in Norway, comparing it to published results for the United States. The results show first that, as expected, overall job mobility is much lower in Norway compared to the United States, likely reflecting th…
Ethnic inequalities in the transition from education to work
Each year, students graduate from schools, colleges and universities. Some find a job quickly -others do not. Delays in the transition from education to work have been associated with scarring effects and detrimental effects on later employment and career progression. Increasing numbers of graduates from universities and colleges are descendants of immigrants. The labour market performance of children of immigrants arguably constitutes an importa…
New Partner, New Order? Multipartnered Fertility and Birth Order Effects on Educational Achievement
A substantial amount of research shows that younger siblings perform worse than their older sisters and brothers in several socioeconomic outcomes, including educational achievement. Most of these studies examined stable families and excluded half-siblings. However, the increasing prevalence of multipartnered fertility implies that many children grow up in nonnuclear families. We examine whether there is evidence for birth order effects in this c…
Aksel Tjora
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One Order Fits All? Birth Order and Education in Immigrant Families
Birth order causes social inequality between siblings. In Western countries, earlier-born perform better than later-born. In non-Western countries, however, earlier-born generally perform worse than later-born. We use administrative data to compare birth order effects between the native population and Norwegian-born children of immigrants (450,864 individuals nested within 202,191 families). The outcome is based on lower secondary school points-a…
Immigrant mothers' preferences for children's sexes
Parental sex preferences have been documented in many native populations, but much less evidence is available on immigrants' preferences for the sexes of their children. Using high-quality longitudinal register data from Norway, a country with a recent immigration history, we estimate hazards regression models of third birth risks by the sex composition of the first two children. A central question in the extant literature is whether the sex pref…
Fødselsrekkefølge og utdanningsoppnåelse
Innen samfunnsforskningen er sosial bakgrunn en av hovedforklaringene på utdanning- og yrkesoppnåelse i voksen alder. Samtidig har en lang forskningstradisjon vist at det er forskjeller mellom søsken i samme familie i sosioøkonomiske forhold, også kjent som fødselsrekkefølgeeffekter. Betydningen av denne typen effekter har blitt dokumentert på en overbevisende og grundig måte de siste årene, men vi mangler studier av viktige undergrupper. I denne…
Fra utdanning til sysselsetting - En forløpsanalyse av indiske og pakistanske etterkommere i Norge
De senere årene har stadig flere norskfødte barn av innvandrere fullført utdanning og kvalifisert seg til deltakelse i arbeidsmarkedet. Vi analyserer, separat for kvinner og menn, overgangen fra utdanning til sysselsetting blant etterkommere av indiske og pakistanske innvandrere, og undersøker tiden det tar fra de er ferdig utdannet til de finner arbeid. Vi sammenligner dem med et 10 prosents tilfeldig utvalg av majoritetsbefolkningen. Resultaten…
Immigrant mothers' preferences for children's sexes
Parental sex preferences have been documented in many native populations, but much less evidence is available on immigrants' preferences for the sexes of their children. Using high-quality longitudinal register data from Norway, a country with a recent immigration history, we estimate hazards regression models of third birth risks by the sex composition of the first two children. A central question in the extant literature is whether the sex pref…
New Partner, New Order? Multipartnered Fertility and Birth Order Effects on Educational Achievement
A substantial amount of research shows that younger siblings perform worse than their older sisters and brothers in several socioeconomic outcomes, including educational achievement. Most of these studies examined stable families and excluded half-siblings. However, the increasing prevalence of multipartnered fertility implies that many children grow up in nonnuclear families. We examine whether there is evidence for birth order effects in this c…
Fra utdanning til sysselsetting - En forløpsanalyse av indiske og pakistanske etterkommere i Norge
De senere årene har stadig flere norskfødte barn av innvandrere fullført utdanning og kvalifisert seg til deltakelse i arbeidsmarkedet. Vi analyserer, separat for kvinner og menn, overgangen fra utdanning til sysselsetting blant etterkommere av indiske og pakistanske innvandrere, og undersøker tiden det tar fra de er ferdig utdannet til de finner arbeid. Vi sammenligner dem med et 10 prosents tilfeldig utvalg av majoritetsbefolkningen. Resultaten…
Fra utdanning til sysselsetting - En forløpsanalyse av indiske og pakistanske etterkommere i Norge
De senere årene har stadig flere norskfødte barn av innvandrere fullført utdanning og kvalifisert seg til deltakelse i arbeidsmarkedet. Vi analyserer, separat for kvinner og menn, overgangen fra utdanning til sysselsetting blant etterkommere av indiske og pakistanske innvandrere, og undersøker tiden det tar fra de er ferdig utdannet til de finner arbeid. Vi sammenligner dem med et 10 prosents tilfeldig utvalg av majoritetsbefolkningen. Resultaten…
Fødselsrekkefølge og utdanningsoppnåelse
Innen samfunnsforskningen er sosial bakgrunn en av hovedforklaringene på utdanning- og yrkesoppnåelse i voksen alder. Samtidig har en lang forskningstradisjon vist at det er forskjeller mellom søsken i samme familie i sosioøkonomiske forhold, også kjent som fødselsrekkefølgeeffekter. Betydningen av denne typen effekter har blitt dokumentert på en overbevisende og grundig måte de siste årene, men vi mangler studier av viktige undergrupper. I denne…
Immigrant mothers' preferences for children's sexes
Parental sex preferences have been documented in many native populations, but much less evidence is available on immigrants' preferences for the sexes of their children. Using high-quality longitudinal register data from Norway, a country with a recent immigration history, we estimate hazards regression models of third birth risks by the sex composition of the first two children. A central question in the extant literature is whether the sex pref…
Aksel Tjora
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
One Order Fits All? Birth Order and Education in Immigrant Families
Birth order causes social inequality between siblings. In Western countries, earlier-born perform better than later-born. In non-Western countries, however, earlier-born generally perform worse than later-born. We use administrative data to compare birth order effects between the native population and Norwegian-born children of immigrants (450,864 individuals nested within 202,191 families). The outcome is based on lower secondary school points-a…
New Partner, New Order? Multipartnered Fertility and Birth Order Effects on Educational Achievement
A substantial amount of research shows that younger siblings perform worse than their older sisters and brothers in several socioeconomic outcomes, including educational achievement. Most of these studies examined stable families and excluded half-siblings. However, the increasing prevalence of multipartnered fertility implies that many children grow up in nonnuclear families. We examine whether there is evidence for birth order effects in this c…
Ethnic inequalities in the transition from education to work
Each year, students graduate from schools, colleges and universities. Some find a job quickly -others do not. Delays in the transition from education to work have been associated with scarring effects and detrimental effects on later employment and career progression. Increasing numbers of graduates from universities and colleges are descendants of immigrants. The labour market performance of children of immigrants arguably constitutes an importa…
Job mobility, reallocation and wage growth
Job reallocation is a key driver of aggregate wage growth, but its role in different economic systems remains understudied. This paper takes a comparative view and analyses the role of job mobility in job reallocation and aggregate wage growth in Norway, comparing it to published results for the United States. The results show first that, as expected, overall job mobility is much lower in Norway compared to the United States, likely reflecting th…
Entering the mainstream economy? Workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation
Why do foreign-born immigrant workers often concentrate in low-wage, minority-dense workplaces? Do immigrants’ native-born children—who typically acquire better language skills, education, and country-specific knowledge—experience improved access to workplaces in the mainstream economy? Using economy-wide linked employer–employee administrative data from Norway, we analyze both ethnic and economic workplace segregation across immigrant generation…
Same neighbourhood, same employer? Residential proximity and workplace concentration among immigrants
Living near one another can channel immigrants toward workplaces through social connections and information flow, shared local opportunity structures, and other residentially patterned pathways, yet few studies link residential proximity to employment outcomes among immigrants and their children. Using Norwegian linked employer–employee administrative data with detailed residential locations, we study how neighbourhood co-residence is tied to wor…
Educational sorting and ethnic inequality in occupational prestige among children of immigrants
This study investigates the occupational prestige of children of immigrants compared to natives in Norway, focusing on the first job after graduation. Using high-quality registry data from 2003 to 2014 ( N = 530,340), the analysis examines ethnic disparities in occupational prestige for six origin-based groups: African, Indian, Pakistani, Turkish, Vietnamese and European. The findings reveal that children of immigrants generally perform similarly…
Det porøse selvet og moderniteten
Hvor slutter jeg, og hvor begynner verden? Tegnes denne grensen opp forskjellig av ulike mennesker og kulturer? Finnes det en spesifikt moderne måte å sette opp en grense mellom en selv og verden på, slik toneangivende antropologer og filosofer nylig har hevdet? I artikkelen svarer vi på disse spørsmålene ved å undersøke en norsk alternativ podkast og ved å analysere hvordan nyspirituelle på paradoksale måter kombinerer førmoderne og moderne erfa…
Sociology (7 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Norwegian (4 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (3 works)