Most migrants who have been entering European developed countries in recent years are not needy and poorly educated people from rural societies, as were in the past; rather, they are either middle class or highly educated youths from large cities. But job opportunities for new migrants lie mainly at the lowest level of the occupational ladder even for the highly educated ones. The team aims to compare some national contexts and to investigate the topic with the Labour Force surveys. This comparative perspective will allow to disentangle effects that are specific to a single immigrant group (for example, effects resulting from specific histories of migration or reception) from effects that are broader in their impact (for example, those resulting from labour market structures and welfare state).
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New Immigrants in the European Countries