In Europe, Arduous Jobs Fall On First-Generation Migrants. But Later Generations Benefit From Improved Opportunities
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- Vincent Vandenberghe, 2025. "In Europe, Arduous Jobs Fall On First-Generation Migrants. But Later Generations Benefit From Improved Opportunities," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 2025007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
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Keywords
Work Arduousness; Migrant-Native Arduousness Gap; Working Conditions; Convergence;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LMA-2025-04-28 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2025-04-28 (Economics of Human Migration)
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