Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy: The Spanish case

Arbeitspapier

We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze this kind of mobility. The obtained evidence shows that, in general, immigrants experience a strong occupational downgrading in Spain when compared to their origin countries. This fact is due to the strong downgrading they experience when entering the Spanish labour market and their low improvement in the following years.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5581

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: immigration ; occupational mobility ; Spain ; Migranten ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Erwerbsstatus ; Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte ; Spanien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Simón, Hipólito ; Ramos, Raul ; Sanromá, Esteban
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51716
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104134032
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET