Social assimilation and immigrants’ labour market outcomes
利用澳大利亚纵向数据，研究了移民的社会同化水平与就业、工资、就业不足、工作满意度等劳动力市场结果的关系，并分析了2008-2009年金融危机前后的差异。
Abstract We analyse how immigrants’ level of social assimilation is related to their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the association between assimilation and employment, wages, underemployment, three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. Using Australian longitudinal data, we find that assimilation is strongly associated with employment and wages as well as a number of job satisfaction measures. We then split our data and repeat the analysis for before and after the financial crisis of 2008–2009. We find important differences in the way assimilation is associated with different measures of labour market outcomes under different economic conditions. Finally, we explore mechanisms that may underlie the results.