Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51716 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5581
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze this kind of mobility. The obtained evidence shows that, in general, immigrants experience a strong occupational downgrading in Spain when compared to their origin countries. This fact is due to the strong downgrading they experience when entering the Spanish labour market and their low improvement in the following years.
Subjects: 
immigration
occupational mobility
Spain
JEL: 
J15
J24
J61
J62
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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