Integration of immigrants in the EU_15: success or failure?

Adéla Zubíková ()
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Adéla Zubíková: Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague

No 10112410, Proceedings of Economics and Finance Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: In 2015, the so-called migration crisis culminated in Europe. Although immigration can bring along many benefits (labor force, cultural diversification), it constitutes a challenge for fiscal policy if immigrants fail to integrate. This paper examines the level of integration in the EU_15 on the data from Eurostat in period 2009 to 2018. The results show that immigrants who were not born in the EU_28 were significantly worse off in terms of the unemployment rate and the risk-of-poverty rate than the host society. Immigrants born in the other EU_28 country were not significantly worse off on the labor market, but the at-risk-of-poverty rate was significantly higher in comparison with the host society. The data didn?t confirm that share of immigrants with tertiary education (both from the EU_28 or outside the EU_28) was significantly lower than the share of the tertiary educated population in the host society. The level of integration of immigrants did not got worse after the migration crisis. Furthermore, the results showed a considerable difference in the degree of integration between EU_15 countries.

Keywords: immigration; economic integration; social integration; refugees; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F29 F50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2019-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-int and nep-mig
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 12th Economics & Finance Conference, Dubrovnik, Oct 2019, pages 367-384

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