Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18510 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 617
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models. Compared to natives with the same observable and unobservable characteristics, unemployed migrants do not find less stable positions but they need more time to find these jobs. The probability of leaving unemployment also varies strongly between ethnicities, while first and second generation Turks are identified as the major problem group. Therefore, policy should concentrate on the job finding process of Turkish migrants to fight their disadvantages on the labor market.
Subjects: 
Unemployment duration
employment stability
bivariate hazard rate models
migration
ethnicity
JEL: 
J64
J61
C41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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