Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? A comparison of 19 European countries

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This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants. Evidence also indicates that a stricter regulation of regular contracts increases the immigrant-native earnings gap and immigrants' chances of holding temporary contracts. A stricter regulation of temporary contracts increases immigrants' risk of unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather than in comparison to natives.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2014-41

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Labor Discrimination ; Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition
• Subject: immigrants ; unemployment ; underemployment ; earnings ; contracts ; Europe ; employment protection ; union density

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Markaki, Yvonni
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Colchester
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126471
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET