Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126471 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2014-41
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants. Evidence also indicates that a stricter regulation of regular contracts increases the immigrant-native earnings gap and immigrants' chances of holding temporary contracts. A stricter regulation of temporary contracts increases immigrants' risk of unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather than in comparison to natives.
Subjects: 
immigrants
unemployment
underemployment
earnings
contracts
Europe
employment protection
union density
JEL: 
F22
J31
J51
J61
J64
J71
J82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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