The “Migrant in the Market”: Migration and Care Work Across Six Liberal Welfare Regimes

Naomi Lightman ()

No 682, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This article disaggregates high and low status care work, based on the degree of “social closure” in a given caring occupation, across six liberal welfare regimes: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Bolstering the argument that there is a “migrant in the market” model of employment unique to liberal welfare regimes, the data demonstrate that foreign-born individuals are more likely to perform low status, precarious care work within each country than the native-born and that migrant workers experience an overall wage penalty in the labour force, as well as there being an additional penalty for those who perform service work in the realms of education and health.

Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2018-06
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Published in Journal of European Social Policy, 29, no. 2 (2019): 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928718768337

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