Low-skilled jobs and the return to labor market experience and language training among immigrants in Sweden

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Ek
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Language Training ◽  
Labor Market Experience ◽  
Market Experience

Wages of Skilled Migrant and Native Employees in Germany: New Light on an Old Issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 019791832110405
Author(s):  
Stephan Brunow ◽  
Oskar Jost
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Structure ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Wage Setting ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Labor Market Experience ◽  
Market Experience ◽  
Experience Curves

The German Council of Economic Experts (GCEE) argues for a labor market-driven immigration of skilled migrants into Germany to overcome a decline in workforce due to demographic ageing. We pick up this current debate on skilled immigration by analyzing the migrant-native wage differential for skilled workers in Germany and consider various information on firms. Our results indicate that the wage gap is mainly explained by observable characteristics, especially labor market experience and firm characteristics. However, we find lower rewards for migrants’ labor market experience than for natives (flatter experience curves). Our results show that these differences in experience curves become negligible in the long run. Moreover, we reveal firms’ wage-setting policies: Firms evaluate a worker's education independent of migration backgrounds, as migrants possess the same productivity levels as their German counterparts in the same occupations and task levels. Due to Germany's heterogeneous immigration structure, we are able to compare the results for different migrant subgroups and, thus, derive valuable insights into the migrant-native wage structure with a wide reach beyond Germany. This article adds to current debates in various industrialized countries with demographic ageing patterns, as it focuses on an important group for domestic labor markets: skilled immigrants.

Determinants of Underemployment of Young Adults: A Multi-Country Study

ILR Review ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla ◽  
Rita Claes
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Organizational Socialization ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Labor Market Experience ◽  
Societal Factors ◽  
Market Experience ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time

This longitudinal analysis of interview data for the years 1988 and 1990 explores the determinants of three forms of underemployment among young adults: part-time employment, temporary employment, and unemployment. The authors look at two occupational groups (office technology workers and machine Operators) across six European countries (Belgium, England, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands). Factors that affected patterns of underemployment were education, occupational group, initial labor market experience, perceptions of the labor market (interviewees' view of labor market conditions), and organizational socialization practices (the strategies employers took to integrate the young workers into their first jobs). Organizational and societal factors appear to have had greater influence than behavioral variables such as job search strategies and demographic variables such as gender and age. Unemployment and temporary work had many determinants in common; part-time work, in contrast, was affected only by initial labor market experience and organizational socialization practices.

scholarly journals Attrition and the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience: Avoidance, Control and Correction

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Patricia Rhoton
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Longitudinal Surveys ◽  
Labor Market Experience ◽  
Market Experience ◽  
Avoidance Control

Attrition and the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience: Avoidance, Control and Correction

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