Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market
Miguel Angel Alcobendas (maalcobendas@gmail.com) and
Núria Rodriguez-Planas
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Miguel Angel Alcobendas: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
No 4394, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Abstract:
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an unprecedented immigration boom, Spain presents a perfect natural experiment to analyze immigrations' assimilation process. Using data from the 2000 to 2008 Spanish Labor Force Survey, we find that immigrants are more occupationally mobile than natives, and that much of this greater flexibility is explained by immigrants' assimilation process soon after arrival. However, we find little evidence of convergence, especially among women and high skilled immigrants. This suggests that instead of integrating, immigrants are occupationally segregating, implying that there is both imperfect substitutability and underutilization of immigrants' human capital.
Keywords: segmented labor markets; immigrants' assimilation effects; cohort effects; occupational distributions and mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 J61 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2009-09
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Published - substantially revised version published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014
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Working Paper: IMMIGRANTS' ASSIMILATION PROCESS IN A SEGMENTED LABOR MARKET (2010)
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