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• Drange, Ida; Helland, Håvard & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2024). Unionization, licensure, and workplace variation in pay inequality between immigrants and natives. Socio-Economic Review. ISSN 1475-1461. doi: 10.1093/ser/mwad075.
• Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Horizontal Advantage: Choice of Postsecondary Field of Study Among Children of Immigrants. Demography. ISSN 0070-3370. 60(4), p. 1031–1058. doi: 10.1215/00703370-10823537. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Educational expansion has raised the influence of sorting across postsecondary educational fields on children's future life chances. Yet, little is known about horizontal ethnic stratification in the choice of field of study among children of immigrant parents, whose parents often have moderate absolute levels of education relative to native-born parents but tend to be positively selected on education relative to nonmigrants in the origin country. Using rich administrative data from Norway, we study the educational careers of immigrant descendants relative to the careers of children of native-born parents. Our results show that children of immigrants from non-European countries have a higher likelihood of entering higher education and enrolling in high-paying fields of study compared with children of natives, despite having poorer school grades and disadvantaged family backgrounds. However, immigrant parents' positive selectivity provides limited insight into why children of immigrants exhibit high ambitions later in their postsecondary educational careers. These findings document a persistent pattern of horizontal ethnic advantage in postsecondary education in which ambitious children of immigrants are more likely to enter into more prestigious and economically rewarding fields of study than their fellow students with native-born parents.

• Olivier, Godechot; Nils, Neumann; Paula, Apascaritei; István, Boza; Martin, Hällsten & Lasse Folke, Henriksen [Show all 18 contributors for this article] (2023). Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality. Socio-Economic Review. ISSN 1475-1461. 21(3), p. 1601–1627. Full text in Research Archive
• Petersen, Trond; Hermansen, Are Skeie & Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth (2022). Likestilling: kjønn, arbeid og familiepolitikkens gjennombrudd. In Frønes, Ivar & Kjølsrød, Lise (Ed.), Det norske samfunn : bind 2. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205572300. p. 85–106.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Ethnic enclaves, early school leaving, and adolescent crime among immigrant youth. European Sociological Review. ISSN 0266-7215. 39(3), p. 400–417. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcac034. Full text in Research Archive
• Godechot, Olivier; Neumann, Nils; Apascaritei, Paula; Boza, István; Hällsten, Martin & Henriksen, Lasse Folke [Show all 18 contributors for this article] (2022). Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality. Socio-Economic Review. ISSN 1475-1461. 21(3), p. 1601–1627. doi: 10.1093/ser/mwac036. Full text in Research Archive
• Hermansen, Are Skeie & Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen (2022). Etterkommere av innvandrere: Mellom integrasjon og utenforskap? In Frønes, Ivar & Kjølsrød, Lise (Ed.), Det norske samfunn - bind 1. Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S. ISSN 9788205563414. p. 63–89. Show summary

  I dette kapittelet tar vi for oss hvordan norskfødte barn av innvandrerforeldre – etterkommere – klarer seg i Norge. Vi skiller mellom ulike indikatorer for integrasjon, med utdanning og arbeid på den ene siden og erfaringer med diskriminering og sosial og kulturell inklusjon/eksklusjon på den andre. Forskningen tegner et sammensatt bilde. Etterkommere av innvandrere opplever framgang i både utdanning og arbeidsliv sammenlignet med sine egne foreldre. Når det gjelder kulturelle verdier, religiøsitet og identitet, viser forskningen at det pågår en gradvis integrasjonsprosess i den forstand at etterkommernes verdimessige og nasjonale orientering er likere majoriteten sammenlignet med sine foreldre og innvandrere på samme alder. Analyser av disse integrasjonsindikatorene antyder imidlertid viktige skillelinjer knyttet til hudfarge og religiøs tilhørighet. Minoritetsungdom med foreldre fra Asia og Afrika, og i særlig grad de som definerer seg som muslimer, opplever langt oftere enn ungdom med bakgrunn fra Europa og Nord-Amerika at det stilles spørsmål ved deres tilhørighet til Norge. Forskningen tegner et tilsvarende pessimistisk bilde av etnisk diskriminering, her skjer det ikke en reduksjon over generasjonene.

• Penner, Andrew; Petersen, Trond; Hermansen, Are Skeie; Rainey, Anthony; Boza, István & Elvira, Marta [Show all 29 contributors for this article] (2022). Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. ISSN 2397-3374. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z. Full text in Research Archive
• Hermansen, Are Skeie; Hundebo, Pål Oskar & Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth (2022). Spatial Assimilation at a Halt? Intergenerational Persistence in Neighborhood Contexts among Immigrant Minorities in Norway. International Migration Review. ISSN 0197-9183. 56(4), p. 1069–1106. doi: 10.1177/01979183211067771. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Spatial assimilation theory claims that immigrants’ acculturation and socioeconomic progress will lead to converging neighborhood attainment relative to non-migrant natives. Recently, it has been argued that equalization of local services and life chances across neighborhoods in egalitarian welfare states may delay spatial assimilation by reducing immigrants’ incentives to move out of low-income areas with many (co-ethnic) immigrant neighbors. In this article, we extend this argument to study whether neighborhood equalization also contributes to intergenerational persistence in neighborhood contexts among descendants of immigrants in Norway. Using administrative data, we find that immigrant descendants as adults often remain in neighborhood contexts that resemble their childhood neighborhoods, characterized by relative economic disadvantage and comparatively few ethnic majority residents. Intergenerational persistence in neighborhood contexts is strongest among descendants of immigrants from Pakistan, the Middle East, and Africa. The remaining immigrant–native gaps in spatial economic inequality largely reflect differences in individuals’ education and earnings, family background, and childhood neighborhood context, but these factors matter less for ethnic neighborhood segregation. For both economic and ethnic dimensions of neighborhood attainment, childhood neighborhood context is the factor that matters most in accounting for immigrant–native gaps, whereas individual socioeconomic attainment is the least important. Overall, our findings point to a pattern of “uneven assimilation” among immigrant descendants, where spatial assimilation is slow despite rapid socioeconomic progress across immigrant generations in the egalitarian Norwegian welfare state.

• Hermansen, Are Skeie & Penner, Andrew M. (2022). Trends in Women’s and Men’s College Majors across Four Decades in Norway. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. ISSN 2378-0231. 8(1-2). doi: 10.1177/23780231221081692. Full text in Research Archive
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Visualizing Intergenerational Immigrant Assimilation at Work. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. ISSN 2378-0231. 8. doi: 10.1177/23780231211072590. Full text in Research Archive
• Lillehagen, Mats Eirik & Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth (2022). Ethnic inequalities in the transition from education to work: a longitudinal analysis of school, college and university graduates. Journal of Education and Work. ISSN 1363-9080. 35(4), p. 357–373. doi: 10.1080/13639080.2022.2073337. Full text in Research Archive
• Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth; Lancee, Bram; Larsen, Edvard Nergård; Polavieja, Javier G; Randl, Jonas & Yemane, Ruta (2021). Gender Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from a Cross-National Harmonized Field Experiment. European Sociological Review. ISSN 0266-7215. 38(3), p. 337–354. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcab043. Full text in Research Archive
• Hermansen, Are Skeie; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald; Rainey, Anthony; Avent-Holt, Dustin; Bandelj, Nina & Boza, Istvan [Show all 27 contributors for this article] (2020). Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. ISSN 0027-8424. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1918249117. Full text in Research Archive

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• Madsen, Aleksander Å.; Lillehagen, Mats Eirik & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Immigrant Managers’ Recruitment Practices and Career Influence: Ethnic Homophily, Networks, and Assimilation.
• Umblijs, Janis & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Can A New Name Open Closed Doors? Foreign-Sounding Names and Immigrant Earnings.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Lik lønn for likt arbeid? Kjønn, lønn og foreldreansvar.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Within-job gender pay inequality in Norway and across the rich world.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Innvandrere og deres etterkommere i Norge – integrasjon, utenforskap og sosial mobilitet.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Assimilation at Work: Immigrants in the Norwegian Labor Market.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Lik lønn for likt arbeid? Kjønn, lønn og foreldreansvar.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Lik lønn for likt arbeid? Kjønn, lønn og foreldreansvar.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie & Umblijs, Janis (2023). Can A New Name Open Closed Doors? Foreign-Sounding Names and Immigrants’ Labor Market Careers.
• Madsen, Aleksander Å.; Lillehagen, Mats Eirik & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Immigrant Managers’ Recruitment Practices and Career Influence: Ethnic Homophily, Networks, and Assimilation.
• Larsen, Edvard Nergård; Madsen, Aleksander Å. & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Blending In or Moving On? Workplace Ethnic Diversity, Immigrant Assimilation, and Employee Turnover.
• Larsen, Edvard Nergård; Kotsadam, Andreas & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). What characterizes firms that discriminate?
• Larsen, Edvard Nergård (2023). Diskriminering i møte med Oslo Kommune.
• Madsen, Aleksander Å.; Lillehagen, Mats Eirik; Han, JooHee & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Immigrant Managers’ Recruitment Practices and Career Influence.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Olje, sand eller grus i maskineriet? Innvandring og makt i det flerkulturelle Norge anno 2022.
• Larsen, Edvard Nergård (2022). NSA Presentation: Which employers discriminate, and which do not? Estimating heterogeneity in hiring discrimination using registry-linked experimental data and honest causal forests.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). How immigrant pay gaps are shaped by within-job inequality and segregation in European and North American labor markets .
• Lillehagen, Mats Erik & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Entering the Mainstream Economy? Workplace Segregation and Assimilation across Immigrant Generations.
• Larsen, Edvard Nergård (2022). ISF Presentation: Which employers do (not) discriminate? Estimating heterogeneity in ethnic hiring discrimination.
• Crabtree, Charles; Gaddis, S. Michael; Holbein, John & Larsen, Edvard Nergård (2022). Racially Distinctive Names Signal Both Race/Ethnicity and Social Class. Sociological Science. ISSN 2330-6696.
• Gaddis, S. Michael; Larsen, Edvard Nergård; Crabtree, Charles & Holbein, John (2022). Discrimination Against Black and Hispanic Americans is Highest in Hiring and Housing Contexts: A Meta-Analysis of Correspondence Audits. Social Science Research Network (SSRN). ISSN 1556-5068.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). How immigrant pay gaps are shaped by within-job inequality and segregation in European and North American labor markets.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). How immigrant pay gaps are shaped by within-job inequality and segregation in European and North American labor markets.
• Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2022). Reaching Higher? Horizontal Stratification in the Educational Careers of Immigrant Descendants.
• Madsen, Aleksander Å. & Lillehagen, Mats Eirik (2022). Ethnic Differences in Access to Managerial Positions: An Intergenerational Approach.
• Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Reaching Higher? Horizontal Stratification in the Educational Careers of Immigrant Descendants.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Within-job gender pay inequality in Norway and across the rich world.
• Crabtree, Charles; Gaddis, S. Michael; Holbein, John & Larsen, Edvard Nergård (2021). Changes in the Amount and Type of Social Science Research on Discrimination: 1950 to 2015. Social Science Research Network (SSRN). ISSN 1556-5068.
• Lillehagen, Mats Eirik & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2021). Ethnic Workplace Segregation and Assimilation across Immigrant Generations in the Norwegian Labor Market.
• Drange, Ida; Helland, Håvard & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2020). Occupational licensing, unionization, and workplace variation in pay inequalities between immigrants and natives.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2020). Lønnsforskjeller mellom bedrifter forklarer økt ulikhet i Norge. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2020). Hva hjelper det å klappe for de lavtlønte? Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Hermansen, Are Skeie (2019). Sosial mobilitet og inkludering i arbeidslivet blant innvandrere og etterkommere .
• Lillehagen, Mats Erik & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Entering the Mainstream Economy? Workplace Segregation and Immigrant Assimilation. SocArxiv.
• Larsen, Edvard Nergård; Madsen, Aleksander Å. & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Blending in or moving on? Workplace ethnic diversity, immigrant assimilation, and employee turnover. SocArxiv.

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