Working Through Barriers Host Country Institutions and Immigrant Labour Market Performance in Europe /

• Main Author: Kogan, Irena (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Labor economics.; Sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Demography.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Labor Economics.; Migration.; Sociology, general.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Human Geography.

Working through Barriers deals with the role host countries’ institutional characteristics play in the labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union. Drawing on existing research it develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors (and underlying mechanisms) affecting immigra...

Table of Contents:

• Immigrant labour market performance: A European perspective
• Explaining Immigrant Labour Market Inequality
• Immigration Policies and Immigrant Selectivity in Europe
• Immigrants and the labour market
• Welfare Regimes and Immigrants’ Employment Prospects
• Empirical Assessment of the Role of Institutions in the Labour Market Outcomes of Male Immigrants in Fourteen European Union Countries
• Employment Careers and Unemployment Dynamics of Male Immigrants in Germany and Great Britain
• Ex-Yugoslavs in the Austrian and Swedish labour markets131
• Conclusions.