Employment and education-occupation mismatches of immigrants and their children in the netherlands: comparisons with the native majority group

This study examines the labor market integration of immigrants and their children in the Netherlands focusing on employment and over- and underqualification. Using data from the first wave of the Netherlands Longitudinal Life-Course Study (NELLS), the analysis shows disadvantages in employment probabilities for men and women from different foreign origin groups compared to the Dutch majority even after accounting for differences in human capital. Ethnic differences in employment probabilities are lower, but still visible, when comparing only respondents who obtained post-secondary education in... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Khoudja, Yassine
Dokumenttyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Verlag/Hrsg.: MISC
Schlagwörter: Wirtschaft / Sozialwissenschaften / Soziologie / Anthropologie / Economics / Social sciences / sociology / anthropology / Sociology & anthropology / Arbeitsmarktforschung / Migration / Wirtschaftssoziologie / Labor Market Research / Sociology of Migration / Sociology of Economics / Niederlande / Einwanderung / Migrant / Integration / Bildungsniveau / Qualifikationsniveau / Überqualifikation / öffentlicher Sektor / Ethnizität / Erwerbsarbeit / Humankapital / Mann / Frau / erste Generation / zweite Generation / Netherlands / immigration / level of education / level of qualification / over qualification / public sector / ethnicity / gainful work / human capital / man / woman / first generation / second generation
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This study examines the labor market integration of immigrants and their children in the Netherlands focusing on employment and over- and underqualification. Using data from the first wave of the Netherlands Longitudinal Life-Course Study (NELLS), the analysis shows disadvantages in employment probabilities for men and women from different foreign origin groups compared to the Dutch majority even after accounting for differences in human capital. Ethnic differences in employment probabilities are lower, but still visible, when comparing only respondents who obtained post-secondary education in the Netherlands. Further, first-generation immigrant men from Turkey and Morocco are at higher risk of being overeducated than Dutch majority men whereas this is not the case for second generation men and first- and secondgeneration minority women. Substantial ethnic difference in the likelihood of being undereducated are not prevalent. Having a foreign compared to a Dutch degree is related to lower labor market outcomes, but this negative relation is more pronounced for women than for men. Finally, there is some indication that overeducation is somewhat less common in the public sector than in the private sector, but minorities do not benefit more from this than the Dutch majority.