Gender gap dynamics among refugees and recent immigrants: Different start, similar patterns?

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In the last years, the labor market integration of immigrant women has received much attention in the migration literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany during a similar period from a dynamic perspective. We compare their pathways throughout the early period after arrival and study a range of conditions suggested to be relevant for gendered labor market outcomes. Using two panel data sources, which include recently arrived refugees (the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Sample of Refugees) and other immigrants (the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample) in Germany, we compare the dynamics and sources of employment gender gap among refugees and other immigrants. The results uncover narrow initial gender differences among refugees that grow over time and a reversed pattern among other immigrants. However, female refugees' initial disadvantaged starting position maintains five years after arrival. Furthermore, our findings indicate that the explanations offered in the literature cannot fully explain the hurdles female refugees and other immigrants face when entering the labor market.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IAB-Discussion Paper ; No. 11/2023

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Thema: Refugees ; immigrants ; gender gap ; labor market integration ; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Kosyakova, Yuliya ; Salikutluk, Zerrin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
• (wo): Nürnberg
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.48720/IAB.DP.2311
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/283018
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ