The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labour market hierarchies

Martin Guzi*, Martin Kahanec, Lucia Mýtna Kureková

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Across European Union (EU) labour markets, immigrant and native populations exhibit disparate labour market outcomes, signifying widespread labour market hierarchies. Despite the considerable investment in migration and integration policies, it remains unclear whether these contribute to or alleviate labour market hierarchies between natives and immigrants. Using a longitudinal model based on individual-level EU LFS and country-level DEMIG POLICY and POLMIG databases, we explore variation in changes of immigration and integration policies across Western EU member states to study how they are linked to labour market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps between immigrant and native populations. Our findings suggest that designing less restrictive immigration and integration policies could aid in reducing existing labour market disadvantages for immigrants, enabling them to realise their full potential and reduce the immigrant-native labour market hierarchies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4169-4187
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Volume49
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 May 2023

Keywords

  • DEMIG POLICY
  • European Union
  • POLMIG
  • decomposition
  • employment quality
  • hierarchy
  • immigrant
  • integration policy
  • labour market
  • native

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