Aleksander Å. Madsen
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Aleksander Å. Madsen
@aleksandermadsen.bsky.social
Sociologist
🚨 New paper in @sfjournal.bsky.social: Blending In or Moving On? @enlar.bsky.social @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, and I study how the share of immigrant coworkers affects whether immigrants stay or leave their job. Here’s what we find 👇

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
October 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Aleksander Å. Madsen
IN OTHER NEWS: check out our new COIN paper on immigrant--native pay gaps in advanced economies published in @nature.com this afternoon! Specifically, we study the relative contribution of within-job unequal pay vs between-job segregation to earnings disparities across immigrant generations. 1/9
Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs - Nature
Data from nine European and North American countries reveal that the disparity in earnings between immigrants and natives is largely a result of segregation of immigrant workers into lower-paying jobs...
www.nature.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Aleksander Å. Madsen
New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.
July 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Kicking off this account with a new working paper with @aresherman.bsky.social. Check it out!
Childhood immigration, skill specialization, and worker sorting: https://osf.io/mg8wu
July 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM