Employment and wage assimilation of male first-generation immigrants in Denmark

Labour market assimilation of Danish first-generation male immigrants is an alysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants a nd 10 per cent of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employm ent probabilities are estimated jointly in a random effects model which cor rects for unobserved cohort and individual effects and panel selectivity du e to missing wage information. The results show that immigrants assimilate partially to Danes, but the assimilation process differs between refugees a nd non-refugees.