The Education and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Europe, Long-term View

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Supervisors

Vandenberghe, Vincent

Faculty

Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication

Degree label

Master [60] en sciences économiques, orientation générale

Abstract

Considering the political climate in most European countries, understanding how well immigrants integrate to destination country labor markets and whether labor market outcomes differ by country of birth is very important. Starting from the last decade, we are following a rise of immigration discourse in political agendas. Many people have strong opinions regarding immigration; however, the number of quantitative evidence that can support our arguments is relatively restricted. In this political climate that we are living, it is essential to have some knowledge regarding how immigrants are affecting the society and what is their replacement in the host country. The aim of this thesis is to provide an overall image on how well non-European origin immigrants are performing in European labor markets in terms of their earnings, in employment ratio, years of work experience, number of hours worked per week, and type of work contract they have when compared to native born individuals. The data is taken from the 2016 wave of European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and to be accounted the extent to which factors favorable to labor market outcome differences that may arise from being of a non-European origin, multiple regression analysis techniques are used to reassess earlier research. The study focuses on non-EU origin individuals that immigrated to 27 European Union member states plus, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Serbia, and the UK.