Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation?
This article examines the labour market outcomes of immigrants in Spain, a country that has become a migration destination only since the end of the 1990s. Differentiating between first and second generation of immigrant descent, we compare the labour market involvement of the main ethnic groups wit...
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| author | Mariña Fernández-Reino Jonas Radl María Ramos |
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| description | This article examines the labour market outcomes of immigrants in Spain, a country that has become a migration destination only since the end of the 1990s. Differentiating between first and second generation of immigrant descent, we compare the labour market involvement of the main ethnic groups with the majority group. One particular focus is to understand which minorities have been hit the hardest by the Great Recession. To this end, we use data from the European Union Labour Force Survey for the years 2008 and 2014, and more specifically the two ad-hoc modules on the labour market situation of migrants. Analysing men and women separately, we run a set of multivariate logistic regression models to control for compositional differences. In this way, we examine ethnic gaps not only in labour force participation but also in the degree of underutilisation of human capital, measured as workers’ level of over-education as well as the incidence of involuntary part-time employment. Our results show that while most origin groups do not show significantly lower employment participation than the majority group, the employment quality of immigrants in terms of involuntary part-time work and over-education is substantially worse, especially since the crisis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-743039f41b54484782e7984f173c8ff92022-12-22T03:41:39ZengCogitatioSocial Inclusion2183-28032018-07-0163486310.17645/si.v6i3.1441780Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation?Mariña Fernández-Reino0Jonas Radl1María Ramos2Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SpainDepartment of Social Sciences, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain / WZB Berlin Social Science Center, GermanyDepartment of Social Sciences, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SpainThis article examines the labour market outcomes of immigrants in Spain, a country that has become a migration destination only since the end of the 1990s. Differentiating between first and second generation of immigrant descent, we compare the labour market involvement of the main ethnic groups with the majority group. One particular focus is to understand which minorities have been hit the hardest by the Great Recession. To this end, we use data from the European Union Labour Force Survey for the years 2008 and 2014, and more specifically the two ad-hoc modules on the labour market situation of migrants. Analysing men and women separately, we run a set of multivariate logistic regression models to control for compositional differences. In this way, we examine ethnic gaps not only in labour force participation but also in the degree of underutilisation of human capital, measured as workers’ level of over-education as well as the incidence of involuntary part-time employment. Our results show that while most origin groups do not show significantly lower employment participation than the majority group, the employment quality of immigrants in terms of involuntary part-time work and over-education is substantially worse, especially since the crisis.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/1441employment participationethnic inequalityinvoluntary part-timemigrant assimilationover-education |
| spellingShingle | Mariña Fernández-Reino Jonas Radl María Ramos Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation? Social Inclusion employment participation ethnic inequality involuntary part-time migrant assimilation over-education |
| title | Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation? |
| title_full | Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation? |
| title_fullStr | Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation? |
| title_short | Employment Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in Spain: Towards Increasing Economic Incorporation among Immigrants and the Second Generation? |
| title_sort | employment outcomes of ethnic minorities in spain towards increasing economic incorporation among immigrants and the second generation |
| topic | employment participation ethnic inequality involuntary part-time migrant assimilation over-education |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/1441 |
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