Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Markaki, Yvonni
Title: Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? A comparison of 19 European countries
Abstract: This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants. Evidence also indicates that a stricter regulation of regular contracts increases the immigrant-native earnings gap and immigrants’ chances of holding temporary contracts. A stricter regulation of temporary contracts increases immigrants’ risk of unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather than in comparison to natives.

Creation-Date: 20141201
Number: 2014-41
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2014-41.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2014-41