Open AccessLength of time to first job for immigrants in the United Kingdom: An exploratory analysis
Author(s) -
Juyin Helen Wong
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
canadian studies in population
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.157
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1927-629X
pISSN - 0380-1489
DOI - 10.25336/p6v60t
Subject(s) - immigration , demographic economics , ethnic group , duration (music) , perspective (graphical) , panel data , inequality , variable (mathematics) , sociology , demography , economics , political science , econometrics , mathematics , art , mathematical analysis , geometry , literature , anthropology , law
This study explores whether ethnicity affects immigrants’ time to first employment. Many studies on labour/social inequalities focus on modeling cross-sectional or panel data when comparing ethnic minority to majority groups in terms of their employment patterns. Results from these models, however, do not measure the degree of transition-duration penalties experienced by immigrant groups. Because time itself is an important variable, and to bridge the gap between literature and methodology, a lifecourse perspective and a duration model are employed to examine the length of transition that immigrants require to find first employment.