Akay, AlpaslanTezic, Kerem2007-12-052007-12-052007-12-051403-2465http://hdl.handle.net/2077/7620Version updated 2008-01-21The earnings-assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden was analyzed using eleven waves of panel-data, 1990-2000. Employment-probabilities and earnings were estimated simultaneously in a random-effects model, using a quasifixed effects to control for both individual effects and panel-selectivity due to missing earnings-information. Assuming equal-period effects produced bias which could distort the findings. To correct the bias, local unemployment-rates were used to proxy for changing economy-wide conditions. Labour-market outcomes differed consider- ably across immigrant arrival cohorts, region and country of origin, and educational levels.engImmigrantsearnings-assimilatiounbalanced panelselection-biasrandom-effectsMundlak's formulationlocal unemployment-ratesJEL Codes: C33, J15, J61Text