Working Through Barriers : Host Country Institutions and Immigrant Labour Market Performance in Europe

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. Immigrant labour market performance: A European perspective....Pages 1-8 Explaining Immigrant Labour Market Inequality....Pages 9-24 Immigration Policies and Immigrant Selectivity in Europe....Pages 25-48 Immigrants and the labour market....Pages 49-64 Welfare Regimes and Immigrants’ Employment Prospects....Pages 65-71 Empirical Assessment of the Role of Institutions in the Labour Market Outcomes of Male Immigrants in Fourteen European Union Countries....Pages 73-104 Employment Careers and Unemployment Dynamics of Male Immigrants in Germany and Great Britain....Pages 105-153 Ex-Yugoslavs in the Austrian and Swedish labour markets 131 ....Pages 155-182 Conclusions....Pages 183-195 "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."--BOOK JACKET