Skill composition and occupational incorporation of early and recent immigrants in Switzerland. The case of Italians and Spaniards.

Autor/inn/en	Vidal-Coso, Elena; Ortega-Rivera, Enrique
Titel	Skill composition and occupational incorporation of early and recent immigrants in Switzerland. The case of Italians and Spaniards. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Qualifikationsstruktur und berufliche Integration früherer und aktueller Einwanderer in die Schweiz. Das Beispiel der Italiener und Spanier.
Quelle	In: International migration, 55 (2017) S1, S. 86-111 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-7985; 1468-2435
DOI	10.1111/imig.12320
Schlagwörter	Berufliche Integration; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsstruktur; Italiener; Spanier; Schweiz
Abstract	"Using the 1980 Census and 2010-2011 Structural Survey, we compare the socio-demographic profile and the occupational incorporation of Italian and Spanish immigrants arriving in Switzerland between 1976 and 1980 with those arriving during the second half of the 2000s. We find evidence that the traditional over-representation of Italian and Spanish immigrants among the lower strata of the occupational hierarchy at the end of the guest worker period is explained by their negative selection in terms of education and host language proficiency, corroborating the human capital hypothesis. However, the results also show the persistence of occupational disadvantages for these immigrants after controlling for human capital characteristics, indicating the existence of segmentation dynamics in the Swiss labour market. In contrast, recent cohorts of immigrants from Italy and Spain have definitively joined the collective of highly skilled foreign workers correctly matched in the Swiss labour market in accordance with their positive skill-selectivity." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/2