Contrasting Trajectories of Labor-Market Integration Between Migrant Women in Western and Southern Europe

Trajectoires d’intégration des immigrées sur le marché du travail: une comparaison entre l’Europe de l’Ouest et l’Europe du Sud

Michael S. Rendall (), Flavia Tsang, Jennifer K. Rubin, Lila Rabinovich and Barbara Janta
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Michael S. Rendall: RAND Corporation
Flavia Tsang: RAND Europe, Westbrook Centre
Jennifer K. Rubin: RAND Europe, Westbrook Centre
Lila Rabinovich: RAND Corporation
Barbara Janta: RAND Europe, Westbrook Centre

European Journal of Population, 2010, vol. 26, issue 4, No 1, 383-410

Abstract: Abstract The labor-market assimilation hypothesis predicts poorer initial labor-market outcomes among immigrants followed by convergence toward the outcomes of the native-born working-age population with time lived in the receiving country. We investigate the applicability of this hypothesis to migrant women’s labor-force participation in Europe. We compare labor-force participation rate (LFPR) gaps between migrant and native-born women in nine European countries, and examine how these LFPR gaps change with migrant women’s additional years in the receiving country. Consistent with the assimilation hypothesis, the LFPRs of migrant women in the “old” migrant-receiving countries of Western Europe begin much lower than for otherwise-comparable native-born women and converge, although not always completely, toward the LFPRs of native-born women with additional years lived in the country. In the “new” migrant-receiving countries of Southern Europe, however, the LFPRs of migrant women at all durations of residence are similar to those of native-born women. Additional descriptive evidence of high unemployment and under-employment and of difficulty achieving family work balance among Western European migrant women points toward receiving-country context as a major explanation for these empirical patterns.

Keywords: Immigrants; Labor market; Integration; Europe; Immigrés; Marché du travail; Intégration; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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