Webpages tagged with «Workplace»

In this working paper, Are Skeie Hermansen and co-authors examine the extent to which immigrant-native earnings differences reflects differential sorting into lower-paid jobs or unequal pay when doing the same work for the same employers. Their findings can be read below. 

In this article, Are Skeie Hermansen uses heat plots to visualize differences in ethnic and socioeconomic characteristics of workplace contexts by immigrant background. This reveals a striking overall pattern of intergenerational assimilation of which further details can be read below. 

In this working paper, Aleksander Madsen, Are Skeie Hermansen and co-author investigate the relationship between workplace concentration of immigrant-origin minorites and turnover among immigrants and second-generation children of immigrants. Using linked employer-employee data, from the Norwegian labor market, their findings supports social contract theories claiming that improved work environment and coworker support reduces turnover among immigrant-background workers.