Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy: the Spanish case

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Título: Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy: the Spanish case
Autor/es: Simón, Hipólito | Ramos Lobo, Raúl | Sanromá Meléndez, Esteban
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: Territorio y Movilidad. Mercados de Trabajo y Vivienda
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado
Palabras clave: Immigration | Occupational mobility | Spain
Área/s de conocimiento: Economía Aplicada
Fecha de publicación: 2011
Editor: Institut d’Economia de Barcelona
Cita bibliográfica: SIMÓN, Hipólito; RAMOS, Raúl; SANROMÁ, Esteban. “Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy: the Spanish case”. Documents de Treball de l'IEB 2011/28, 34 p.
Resumen: This research examines the occupational mobility of immigrants between their countries of origin and Spain, and its main determinants. It is based on microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes and the use of an international index of occupational status, the International Socio-Economic Index. The empirical evidence shows that immigrants experience, in general, an intense occupational downgrading in Spain with regard to their countries of origin. This is explained largely by the intense degradation that they often experience when they arrive, since the subsequent occupational recovery during the stay in Spain is limited. Occupational downgrading associated to the entry in the Spanish labour market is usually more severe for women, for better-educated immigrants and those from developing countries. The subsequent recovery confirms the hypothesis of a deep U-shaped occupational mobility for the last two groups, while women have greater difficulties to advance occupationally. Reside in Spain, validating foreign studies, learn Castilian and regularize the documental situation improve occupational status, but, except in the latter case, slowly. Get the first job in Spain through informal networks has a negative effect on occupational attainment. Finally, the more time looking for employment and job search including geographic mobility translates into a better occupational improvement, while unemployment has a negative effect.
Patrocinador/es: Support received from the Spanish Ministry of Science through the projects SEJ2007-67767-C04-02, ECO2010-16006, SEJ2007-65086/ECON and from the Catalan Government through the project 2010 ARF1 00044.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/27915
Idioma: eng
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Revisión científica: no
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