Immigrants Living in the EU15 Countries and Their Conditions of Integration in the Labour Market (original) (raw)
The integration of labour migrants and their descendants in the labour market is today a main challenge of European host societies. It has significant and positive implications not only on individuals and their personal autonomy but also on the society as a whole, in terms of social cohesion (OECD, 2009). More integrated migrants are likely to be more productive and, in turn, better accepted by receiving societies. Given the constant need of migrants in today’s European labour markets (Fargues, 2011), investing resources on the integration of migrants and social cohesion would thus represent a valid tool in allowing policymakers for designing rationale admission policies, accepted by European civil societies. This paper aims at depicting the conditions of migrants in the labour market of EU15 countries (EU15) and comparing their situation with that of non-migrants. Different categories of migrants (units of analysis) were built according to the intersection of the following variable...
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