It is well documented that immigrant women have lower employment than Norwegian women without an immigrant background. But what characterizes the labour force participation among those who have found work? This article studies mobility in working hours and work affiliation through adopting registry data where women who were employed in 2009 are followed until 2012. Norwegian women are compared with women who have immigrated from Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia and Vietnam. We find that part-time work is a more stable working relation among Norwegian than among immigrant women. Women from Iraq, Iran, Somalia and Vietnam are more likely to increase working hours than Norwegian women, which may indicate a higher degree of involuntary part-time. However, the movement out of paid work far is more extensive among immigrants than among Norwegian women. This also applies after control for variations in education, family situation, type of work and working hours. The analyses suggest that immigrant women as a whole have a more marginalized position in Norwegian working life than women without an immigrant background, but also show that there is considerable variation in this area between women from different groups of countries. © UNIVERSITETSFORLAGET TIDSSKRIFT FOR SAMFUNNSFORSKNING.

Part-time work immigrant women Marginalization mobility economic integration

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