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The effect of integration policies on the time until regular employment of newly arrived immigrants: evidence from Denmark

We analyse the effect of active labour-market programmes on the hazard rate into regular employment for newly arrived immigrants using the timing-of-events duration model. We take account of language course participation and progression in destination country language skills. We use rich administrative data from Denmark. We find substantial lock-in effects of participation in active labour-market programmes. Post programme effects on the hazard rate to regular employment are significantly positive for wage subsidy programmes, but not for other types of programmes. For language course participants, improvement in language proficiency has significant and substantial positive effects on the hazard rate to employment.

We analyse the effect of active labour-market programmes on the hazard rate into regular employment for newly arrived ...  Show Full Abstract  

Authors: Clausen, Jens; Heinesen, Eskil; Hummelgaard, Hans;
Husted, Leif; Rosholm, Michael show more

Corporate authors: Institute for the Study of Labour (Germany) (IZA)
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Denmark
Resource type: Paper
Series name: IZA discussion paper
Subjects: Participation; Labour market; Employment;
Statistics; Language; Teaching and learning; Skills and knowledge; Economics; Migration; Evaluation show more

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