Work Trajectories of Female and Male Immigrants in Spain

This article aims to examine in depth the work trajectories of individuals over time, in orderto provide a wider perspective of the employment history of immigrants compared to nativepeople, by gender and for more than one decade (2005&-2017) in Spain. We use microdata (cohortand multivariate analysis) from the Labour Force Survey and carry out a comparison forthree groups: the Spanish born in Spain, the Spanish born abroad, and the non-Spanish bornabroad. The results confirm that the non-Spanish born-abroad group is characterized by theexistence of segmented assimilation. All foreigners suffered a loss in their work trajectories,since their employment rate in 2017 has as yet neither reached the level of the last years ofthe previous economic expansion nor the level of the previous cohorts at the same age