Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 951:
The Labor Market Performance of First-Generation Immigrants: Evidence for Switzerland
Stefan M. Golder
Abstract: This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market
performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as an indicator
and natives as the reference group for the analysis. The analysis proceeds
in two stops. In a first step, probit regressions on the unemployment
probabilities are estimated for the pooled cross-section of 1991 and 1995,
taking into account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a
second stop, and based on the finding that unemployment rates usually
differ significantly across sectors, the asymmetry in the sectoral
distribution of immigrants with respect to natives is assessed. The
empirical results indicate that Swiss and males exhibit significantly lower
unemployment probabilities than immigrants and females. Furthermore,
immigrants from Non-European countries have not only a higher unemployment
probability than natives, but also the largest asymmetry in the employment
structure.
Keywords: International Migration, Labor Supply, Employment Determinantion, Unemployment; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F22; J22; J23; J64; (follow links to similar papers)
25 pages, October 1999
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