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- A comprehensive empirical analysis of available comparative data exploring the labour market integration of immigrants in Europe
- Provides direct tests for the hypothetical role of institutions in the process of immigrant labour market incorporation in the EU countries
- Combines the strengths of large-scale analyses with those of in-depth case studies, allowing an extensive as well as a detailed and focused view of the issue
- Examines the interplay between the contextual conditions in which individual decisions are made along with the aims and resources of immigrants and the native-born
- Uses a multilevel design which allows properly singling out effects of specific institutions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Working through Barriers deals with the role host countries’ institutional characteristics play in the labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union. Drawing on existing research it develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors (and underlying mechanisms) affecting immigrant structural integration in the European Union-15. It maps the European countries with respect to three institutional aspects central to immigrant integration, immigration policies, labour market structure and welfare regimes. Further, it presents a descriptive picture of the labour market situation of the immigrant population in the European Union and seeks to explain the variation in labour market outcomes, namely unemployment risk and occupational status, with reference to differences in the characteristics of the immigrant populations on the one hand, and by differences in labour market structure, immigration policies and welfare regimes in European Union countries, on the other. In-depth analyses of a selected number of EU countries are carried out, with the aim of investigating the extent to which immigrants have succeeded or failed in different institutional contexts.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Mannheim, Germany
Irena Kogan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Working Through Barriers
Book Subtitle: Host Country Institutions and Immigrant Labour Market Performance in Europe
Authors: Irena Kogan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5232-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5231-6Published: 23 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7316-7Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5232-3Published: 03 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 248
Topics: Demography, Labor Economics, Migration, Sociology, general, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Human Geography