Labour Market Integration of Migrant and their Descendants in Europe

Abstract

This paper will assess the labour market integration of immigrants and their descendants in nine European countries using recent statistical data on this matter. It will try to do this taking into account the big diversity of the population of migrants and their descendants, proposing some new and more nuanced measures and categorisations in this respect. It will also provide an analysis of their labour market integration in Europe, taking into account not only participation and employment, but also the quality of the jobs taken up by migrants and the match between those jobs and their educational level. This paper will also introduce controls by different sociodemographic characteristics to avoid biases in our analysis, and separately assess the labour market integration of migrants across different countries and genders.