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Employment returns to tertiary education for immigrants in Western Europe: cross-country differences before and after the economic crisis
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Abstract This article contributes to the literature on the models of immigrants’ labour market incorporation in Western Europe by analysing the employment returns to tertiary education for both natives and immigrants. By using yearly EU-LFS data (2005-2013) for a selection of Western European countries, cros... view more
This article contributes to the literature on the models of immigrants’ labour market incorporation in Western Europe by analysing the employment returns to tertiary education for both natives and immigrants. By using yearly EU-LFS data (2005-2013) for a selection of Western European countries, cross-country differences in the employment returns to tertiary education are analysed separately by immigrant status and gender. In Continental Europe, where immigrant-native employment gaps before the crisis were much larger than in Southern Europe, immigrants are found to benefit more from tertiary education, and their returns are also higher than for natives, while the opposite holds in Southern European countries. The same pattern is found irrespective of gender, but cross-country differences are more pronounced among women. The article also documents that the crisis contributed to a cross-country convergence, although limited to men, in the degree of immigrant employment disadvantage, which increased substantially in Southern Europe while remaining unchanged or slightly declining in all other countries. Nevertheless, although immigrant-native employment gaps grew as high as in Continental Europe, immigrant men in Southern Europe are still found to benefit from lower returns to tertiary education than their native counterparts.... view less
Keywords
immigration; migration; Western Europe; inequality; ethnicity; education; labor market; economic crisis; Southern Europe
Classification
Labor Market Research
Sociology of Economics
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 64-77
Journal
Social Inclusion, 6 (2018) 3
Issue topic
The race for highly-skilled workers
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i3.1446
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed