Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison

Martin Kahanec and Anzelika Zaiceva ()
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Anzelika Zaiceva: IZA

No 3420, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we study the roles of foreign origin and citizenship in the comparative East-West perspective. Our results indicate that while it is immigrant status that is of key importance in the western EU member states, both immigrant status and citizenship matter in the eastern EU member states, their roles depending on gender. We find some evidence that it is the Russian ethnic minority in Estonia and Latvia that drives the relationships between being non-citizen and labor market outcomes that we find in the eastern EU member states.

Keywords: immigrant; citizenship; earnings; employment; labor market; Eastern Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 J61 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-tra
Date: Written 2008-03
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