The Occupational Integration of Male Migrants in Western European Countries: Assimilation or Persistent Disadvantage?

Ballarino, Gabriele; Panichella, Nazareno

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“…An ethnic penalty can be defined as origin‐related disadvantage that remains after accounting for compositional differences between the immigrant and native populations (Ballarino and Panichella, ; Heath and Cheung, ; Zuccotti, : 230). Ethnic penalties exist in several dimensions of labour market disadvantage.…”

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Why do immigrants have longer periods of unemployment? Swiss evidence

Auer

Bonoli

Fossati

2016

International Migration

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Immigrant groups, especially those originating from non‐European countries, tend to experience disadvantages in the labour market and to be overrepresented among the recipients of welfare benefits in many European countries. In the public debate, this outcome is sometimes explained with reference to migration‐related factors such as weaker work values than natives (i.e., acceptability of remaining on benefits), smaller and lower quality of informal networks and lower levels of psychological well‐being. Indeed, we find that these factors significantly influence unemployment duration in the expected direction. However, they explain only a small share of the overall disadvantage that some immigrant groups experience. We conclude that at least some of the large differences we observed in unemployment durations are likely to be due to other factors including discrimination by employers.

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Section: Literature and Hypothesesmentioning

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Why do immigrants have longer periods of unemployment? Swiss evidence

Auer

Bonoli

Fossati

2016

International Migration

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“…Research has established that many recognised refugees face difficulties in gaining access to employment as a result of their exclusion during the asylum process (UNHCR 2013, 32;Neuwirth 2007;Ammer 2011;Kraler et al 2013, 103). The scarce empirical findings on the phases following positive asylum decisions 4 focus on including (former) refugees in the labour market from an ex-post research perspective (Auer 2018;Ballarino and Panichella 2015;Borjas 1999;Lundborg 2013;Schultz and Kolb 2018). This provides us with relevant insights into patterns of discrimination and the importance of remaining active in society.…”

Section: Refugees' Immigration Environments: the Legal Framework And mentioning

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Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work

Scheibelhofer

2019

Identities

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Presently, European and other countries are facing public (and scholarly) discussions surrounding the possibilities of successfully integrating refugees into their respective national labour markets. Such debates often disregard the complex circumstances under which refugees are received in a given nationstate. For this conceptually oriented article, we draw on the example of Austria as a receiving state, as it shares many characteristics with other receiving nation-states in the global north. Theoretically, we base our argument on the assumption that societies are socially unequal. Such inequality is institutionally co-constructed, as we will show in this article. Yet empirical examples assist in understanding how refugees are also actors who are not only exposed to such institutional and varying social environments. Rather, they also reinforce and/or change these circumstances by their own agency.

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“…The segregation of non-Western immigrants in the secondary labour market of low-skilled jobs is dramatic in Italy (Ballarino & Panichella, 2015;Fellini, 2018;Fellini & Guetto, 2018;. The most-recent data from the European Labour Force Survey show that in 2015, above 57% of non-Western immigrant men were holding low-skilled manual or non-manual jobs (against the 33% of men born in the country), a figure that climbs to over 83% for immigrant women (against one out of three for women born in the country).…”

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Poor Returns to Origin-Country Education for Non-Western Immigrants in Italy: An Analysis of Occupational Status on Arrival and Mobility

Fellini¹,

Guetto²,

Reyneri³

2018

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Previous research on the Italian case has shown that non-Western immigrants are very likely to hold low-qualified jobs and that their occupational mobility chances are rather poor, which suggests low returns to education. In this paper, we investigate whether, and to what extent, immigrants' different areas of origin moderate the returns to educational degrees obtained in the origin country. Data from a survey on the immigrant population (carried out in 2011-2012) are used, and, differently from previous studies, we focus on returns to origin-country education with respect to both the socioeconomic status of the first job found on arrival and the subsequent occupational mobility. The results show that almost all nonWestern immigrants experience remarkably low returns to post-secondary education on their first job. Contrary to other West-European countries, those returns in Italy are only slightly different by area of origin, which suggests that differences in the transferability and quality of skills are scarcely relevant in a strongly segmented labour market. Rather, the modes of labour market insertion-e.g., formal search methods or relying on contacts with natives-have a sizeable impact on the returns. Origin-country post-secondary degrees are also consistently associated with low returns on subsequent mobility, although highly educated immigrants from new EU member states experience higher chances of upward mobility. In line with some recent findings, recognition of educational credentials seems decisive for the very few non-Western immigrants who are able either to access better-qualified jobs on arrival or to improve their occupational status over time.

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The Occupational Integration of Male Migrants in Western European Countries: Assimilation or Persistent Disadvantage?

Cited by 81 publications

References 24 publications

Why do immigrants have longer periods of unemployment? Swiss evidence

Why do immigrants have longer periods of unemployment? Swiss evidence

Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work

Poor Returns to Origin-Country Education for Non-Western Immigrants in Italy: An Analysis of Occupational Status on Arrival and Mobility

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