Author: Orsetta Causa / Publishing Institution: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Author:: Sébastien Jean, Orsetta Causa, Miguel Jimenez, and Isabelle Wanner
Publication Date:: 07-2007
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Abstract:: immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second-generation immigrants - both in terms of educational attainments and of labour market outcomes) remains the main challenge facing host economies. In both cases, product and labour market policies have a significant role to play in easing the economy's adjustment to immigration.
Topic:: Migration, Labor Issues, Immigration, and Employment
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Orsetta Causa and Sébastien Jean
Publication Date:: 07-2007
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Abstract:: This working paper assesses the ease of immigrants' integration in OECD labour markets by estimating how an immigration background influences the probability of being active or employed and the expected hourly earnings, for given individual characteristics. Applying the same methodology to comparable data across twelve OECD countries, immigrants are shown to significantly lag behind natives in terms of employment and/or wages. The differences narrow as years since settlement elapse, especially as regards wages, reflecting progressive assimilation. Strong differences in immigrant-to-native gaps are also observed across countries, and the paper shows that they may, to a significant extent, be explained by differences in labour market policies, in particular unemployment benefits, the tax wedge and the minimum wage. In addition, immigrants are shown to be overrepresented among outsiders in the labour market and, as such, highly sensitive to the difference in employment protection legislation between temporary and permanent contracts.
Topic:: Migration, Labor Issues, Immigration, Employment, and Social Services
Political Geography:: Global Focus

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