Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level: Migration policy lessons from Spain

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What are the migration policy lessons that can be learned from the Spanish case? Unlike countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms of wage or occupational assimilation (relative to their native counterparts). This paper discusses the potential explanations behind this result and analyzes the consequences of this result in terms of migration policy recommendations.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Policy Paper ; No. 53

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: wage assimilation ; occupational assimilation ; education ; migration policy ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Arbeitsmarktreform ; Erwerbstätigkeit ; Arbeitsangebot ; Alternde Bevölkerung ; Fachkräfte ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Rodríguez-Planas, Núria
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/91802
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET