Boulet, Maude

Centre d'Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

Lozano, Mariona

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A Comparative Analysis of Job Quality among Immigrant Workers in Europe: Who is accessing to better jobs?  Maude Boulet Mariona Lozano – mariona.lozano@mail.mcgill.ca  37th Annual Conference of the IWPLMS Barcelona   July 7, 2016  Introduction   Five countries.... ? Let’s start with two    Why Job Quality?  ◦ Occupational Segretation ◦ Immigrants’ adjustment ◦ Attitudes towards migration   Background  Theoretical perspectives to understand immigrants’ access to better jobs ◦ Human capital ◦ Labor-market segmentation and ethnic penalty ◦ Gender perpectives: double disadvantage   Spain and Germany  Data and Method   EU-LFS 2012  Job quality index (JQI) ◦ Working time ◦ Work schedule ◦ Job contract ◦ Income decile ◦ Education-Occupation adjustment  0                   5  Data and Method (II)  IV: Sex and origin (1st generation of migrants) ◦ Male non-immigrant ◦ Male immigrant ◦ Female non-immigrant ◦ Female immigrant  One-way Anova & Pairwise comparison  Ordered logistic regression (with full controls)  Results   Mean scores of JQI (0-5)  0 1 2 3 4 5Male immigrantFemale ImmigrantNative MaleNative FemaleGermany, 2012 Spain, 2012 0 1 2 3 4 5Male immigrantFemale ImmigrantNative MaleNative FemaleResults (II) DV: Job Quality Index, Odds ratio Ref: Male Immigrant (net of controls) 00,20,40,60,811,21,41,6Female Immigrants Native Male Native Female*** *** N.S Spain, 2012 00,20,40,60,811,21,41,6Female Immigrants Native Male Native Female*** *** *** Germany, 2012 Preliminary conclusions  Who is accessing to better jobs?  ◦ In Germany:  Native men, immigrant men, native women, immigrant women  ◦ In Spain: Native men, native women, immigrant men, immigrant women  Future plans  Disaggregate results by region of origin   Interaction effects with Industry   Other countries   2014 ad-hoc module on migration (microdata still not available) A Comparative Analysis of Job Quality among Immigrant Workers in Europe: Who is accessing to better jobs?  Maude Boulet Mariona Lozano – mariona.lozano@mail.mcgill.ca  37th Annual Conference of the IWPLMS Barcelona   July 7, 2016  

A comparative analysis of job quality among immigrant workers in Europe : who is accessing to better jobs?

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A comparative analysis of job quality among immigrant workers in Europe : who is accessing to better jobs?

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