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Linking Migration Reasons and Origins to Labour Market Outcomes: Recent Evidence from Europe

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  • Mehtap Akgüç
  • Cécile Welter-Médée

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[eng] This paper aims to understand how the labour market integration of migrants in Europe is affected, in an interrelated fashion, by their reason for migration and their region of origin. Using recent data from the European Labour Force Survey, we distinguish immigrants to Europe between four migration motives: economic, education, family reasons, or international protection. We compare labour market outcomes of these categories of immigrants through earnings, controlling for a variety of individual factors (including language skills and age at migration), and we also investigate the role of selection into employment. Our results suggest that an economic reason for migration together with already having a job upon arrival is positively associated with higher earnings, while, other things equal, refugees and family migrants are more likely to end up with lower earnings. However, when estimating full interaction models, we find that these results are highly dependent on where migrants come from.

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  • Mehtap Akgüç & Cécile Welter-Médée, 2021. "Linking Migration Reasons and Origins to Labour Market Outcomes: Recent Evidence from Europe," Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE), issue 524-525, pages 103-118.
    • Handle: RePEc:nse:ecosta:ecostat_2021_524d_7
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2021.524d.2048
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    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
    • C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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