What explains Immigrant-Native gaps in European Labour Markets: The role of institutions Martin Guzi Martin Kahanec Lucia Mytná Kureková FIW-Workshop: Trade, Migration and Labor Market Outcomes WIFO, 2016 Motivation Immigrant surplus
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What explains Immigrant-Native gaps in European Labour Markets: The role of institutions Martin Guzi Martin Kahanec Lucia Mytná Kureková FIW-Workshop: Trade, Migration and Labor Market Outcomes
WIFO, 2016<br>
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Motivation “Immigrant surplus” depends on economic potential of immigrants and the efficiency on how they use it in the host country
Immigrant-natives gaps threaten the cohesion of receiving societies.
Existing research shows that immigrant characteristics are important to integration (e.g. high edu, age at migration, cultural similarities)
The existing immigrant-native differences in the labor market outcomes are only partially explained by observables (e.g. Cangiano 2012; Kogan 2006).<br>
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The role of institutions Dustmann and Frattini (2012) find that job prospects for recent immigrants are worse in countries with stricter employment protection
Huber (2015) finds that immigrants have difficulties to find employment in countries with more centralized wage bargaining and stricter regulations.
Bergh (2015) identifies the collective bargaining to have a robust impact on labor market gaps<br>
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This paper VoC framework covers the range of institutional areas that influence the working and living environment of immigrants and natives.
Labor market regulation regime
Skill regime
Welfare state regime
Production regime
We look at different outcomes to evaluate chances of getting a job but also the quality of the jobs of immigrants.<br>
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1. Labor market regulation regime less rigid labor market (EPL) may have positive effects on employment of immigrants but at the cost of temporary and low-skilled employment
Stronger unionization may ensure equal employment conditions for immigrants; in case of non-inclusive trade unions, immigrants are pushed to secondary market
Regulation through the collective agreement<br>
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Indicators of social dialogues in Europe Source: ICTWSS 2015<br>
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2. Skill regime Skill regime affects the nature of labor supply and competition in the labor market
general skills regimes put less emphasis on skill certification that is supportive of immigrant integration
specific skills are provided within companies (dual education) and are less transferable
skill regime is measured by the share of students enrolled in the vocational secondary education<br>
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3. Welfare state regime The access to welfare is highly regulated
Generous welfare regimes give advantage to natives but targeted welfare policy help disadvantaged groups and also immigrants
Active labor market policies may increase labor market prospects of immigrants (e.g. Heinesen et al 2011; Clausen et al. 2009)<br>
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4. Production regime Structure of economy determines the supply and demand conditions and hence affects the desired profile of immigrants
The higher share of services and agriculture may provide more employment (low-skilled) opportunities for immigrants relative to natives.
More open economies may provide more favorable conditions to immigrant employment<br>
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Other factors the composition of immigrant population in the receiving countries (diaspora).
Current inflows of immigrants relative to native population
GDP pc, unemployment rate controls for business cycle<br>
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Institutional and structural variables Source: ICTWSS, OECD, Eurostat, Unesco, World Bank (2004-2013, 19 countries)<br>
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Methodology<br>
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Databases EU-LFS 2004-2013 (19 countries)
Demographic variables: education, gender, age and geographic distribution.
Immigrants distinguished by origin and years since arrival
Four labor market outcomes:
Labor market participation
Unemployment status
Low-skill employment (ISCO-9 jobs)
Temporary contract
ICTWSS, OECD, Eurostat, Unesco, World Bank<br>
Findings from first stage A small part of the immigrant–native gap defining the quality of employment is explained by workers’ characteristics, and the larger part is due to other factors.
These outcomes may point to the strategic behavior on the part of migrant workers or their employers aimed at reducing the costs of labor.
Next analysis focuses on unexplained gaps.<br>
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Employment<br>
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Unmployment<br>
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Institutional variables - findings Central wage bargaining makes access to LM worse (to new migrants) and keeps migrants in low-skill and temporary jobs. But it helps NMS and fresh immigrants to get better jobs.
Unions help fresh immigrants to find a job but keeps African migrants out of labor market
Regulated markets provide more chances of NMS and fresh migrants to find a job.<br>
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Skill specialization helps migrants from NMS to get better positions and contracts, but it poses difficulties for older migrants.
Agriculture seems to provide temporary jobs for NMS and non-EU immigrants.
Manufacturing helps to find high-skilled job for migrants but with temporary contract.
ALMP helps migrants in general to find job but low-skilled and temporary.
SOCX keeps fresh migrants out of labor market.<br>
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Structural variables Diaspora helps to find job to fresh migrants (mostly low-skilled job but permanent). Mainly Asian community is well connected.
Markets with high inflows keep fresh migrants out of jobs.
Rising GDP levels help EU-15 and Asian migrants to find a job but fresh migrants fare worse.
High unemployment falls more onto migrants from outside EU.<br>
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Concluding remarks Paper confirms that institutional settings matter to the integration of immigrants
Migrants have difficulties in the highly regulated markets. ALMP help migrants to find a job.
Migrants from NMS do better in skill-specialized regimes, open economies and markets with higher unionization and central bargaining.<br>
