TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Clausen, Jens
AU  - Heinesen, Eskil
AU  - Hummelgaard, Hans
AU  - Husted, Leif
AU  - Rosholm, Michael
        TI  - The Effect of Integration Policies on the Time until Regular Employment of Newly Arrived Immigrants: Evidence from Denmark
        PY  - 2008/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3849
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3849
        AB  - We analyse the effect of active labour-market programmes on the hazard rate into regular employment for newly arrived immigrants using the timing-of-events duration model. We take account of language course participation and progression in destination country language skills. We use rich administrative data from Denmark. We find substantial lock-in effects of participation in active labour-market programmes. Post programme effects on the hazard rate to regular employment are significantly positive for wage subsidy programmes, but not for other types of programmes. For language course participants, improvement in language proficiency has significant and substantial positive effects on the hazard rate to employment.
        KW  - duration analysis
KW  - programme evaluation
KW  - language skills
        ER  -