Maria Forthun Hoen

• Hoen, Maria Forthun; Røed, Knut & Markussen, Simen (2021). Immigration and Economic Mobility. Journal of Population Economics. . doi: 10.1007/s00148-021-00851-4 Vis sammendrag

  We examine how immigration afects natives’ relative prime-age labor market outcomes by economic class background, with class background established on the basis of parents’ earnings rank. Exploiting alternative sources of variation in immigration patterns across time and space, we fnd that immigration from low-income countries reduces intergenerational mobility and thus steepens the social gradient in natives’ labor market outcomes, whereas immigration from high-income countries levels it. These fndings are robust with respect to a wide range of identifying assumptions. The analysis is based on high-quality population-wide administrative data from Norway, which is one of the rich-world countries with the most rapid rise in the immigrant population share over the past two decades. Our fndings suggest that immigration can explain a considerable part of the observed relative decline in economic performance among natives with a lower-class background.

• Hoen, Maria Forthun (2020). Immigration and the Tower of Babel: Using language barriers to identify individual labor market effects of immigration. Labour Economics.  65 . doi: 10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101834 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  This paper introduces a novel approach to estimating immigration impacts on natives’ labor market outcomes. Differential language requirements across occupations serve as an arguably exogenous source of variation during the large and sudden immigration surge to Norway after the enlargements of the European labor market in 2004 and 2007. Migrant inflow into occupations is instrumented with occupations’ required level of (Norwegian) language skills. Administrative register data allow for a rich set of individual-level outcomes. Comparing workers in occupations with different language requirements, I find that a one percentage point increase in the share of Eastern European workers reduced native workers’ labor earnings by 0.75 percent. I further find adverse employment effects and evidence of skill-upgrading, but largely no other form of worker mobility among treated individuals. In particular, young woŕkers were hit in the wage dimension and old workers in the employment dimension. The results are highly robust.

• Hoen, Maria Forthun; Markussen, Simen & Røed, Knut (2019). Innvandring og sosial mobilitet. Svar til kritikerne. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.  60(3), s 309- 320 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-291X-2019-03-09

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• Hoen, Maria Forthun; Markussen, Simen & Røed, Knut (2018). Immigration and Social Mobility.
• Hoen, Maria Forthun (2016). Occupational crosswalk, data, and language requirements. Frisch Arbeidsnotat. 1.
• Hoen, Maria Forthun (2012). The Golden Interest Rule. Staff Memo : Norges Bank. 16.

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