Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy: The Spanish Case

Hipólito Simón (), Raul Ramos and Esteban Sanromá ()
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Hipólito Simón: Universidad de Alicante
Esteban Sanromá: University of Barcelona

No 5581, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze this kind of mobility. The obtained evidence shows that, in general, immigrants experience a strong occupational downgrading in Spain when compared to their origin countries. This fact is due to the strong downgrading they experience when entering the Spanish labour market and their low improvement in the following years.

Keywords: Spain; occupational mobility; immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 J61 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2011-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Published - published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30 (2), 223-255

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