Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36372 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4693
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working conditions in relation to their native counterparts is not only a useful analysis for studying the extent to which immigrants and low-skilled native workers are direct competitors in the labour market, but also allows us to contribute to the literature on this issue by moving away from the conventional approach used in previous studies. Our results indicate that: i) natives and immigrants display a different taste for job (dis)amenities; ii) Catalan-born workers might be in direct competition with EU15 immigrants, while non-Catalan Spanish workers might be competing with Latin American immigrants, and; iii) African-born immigrants are the group in the Catalan workforce that by far face the worst working conditions.
Subjects: 
Job quality
working conditions
immigration
job satisfaction
JEL: 
J28
J61
J81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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