Integration policies and their effects on labour market outcomes and immigrant inflows.

Autor/inn/en	Piton, Céline; Ruyssen, Ilse
Institution	Banque Nationale de Belgique
Titel	Integration policies and their effects on labour market outcomes and immigrant inflows. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Integrationsmaßnahmen und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsmarktergebnisse und den Zustrom von Einwanderern.
Quelle	Brussels (2022), 30 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Working paper / National Bank of Belgium. 411
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Recht; Aufenthaltsrecht; Familiennachzug; Gleichstellungspolitik; Partizipation; Staatsangehörigkeit; Erwerbsquote; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Berufliche Integration; Qualifikation; Internationaler Vergleich; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Einflussfaktor; Europäische Union; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Europäer; Drittland
Abstract	"Throughout Europe, the labour market integration of immigrants tends to lag behind that of natives. This paper empirically analyses the role played by integration policies in closing this gap in EU countries, not only directly, through the employment rate but also indirectly by influencing the intensity and the composition of immigration flows. Relying on the Migration Integration Policy Indicator (MIPEX), we find that countries with more developed integration policies do not necessarily have higher immigrant employment rates. This finding is due to the fact that different types of policies have opposite effects: policies favouring family reunion, tackling discrimination and allowing for political participation seem to increase the labour market integration of immigrants, while the latter is negatively associated with a higher labour market mobility, as well as easier access to permanent residence and nationality. Only the positive effect of anti-discrimination policies survives the inclusion of country fixed effects though. Effects are found to vary across immigrants coming from EU versus non-EU countries, suggesting that there is no one-fits-all integration policy. Moreover, our results confirm that immigrants' labour market integration varies with the skill composition of the migrant population, a higher level of qualification favouring employment. The composition of the immigrant population within a country in terms of skill levels, however, could also be influenced by integration policies in potential destination countries, a premise which we also test. We show that integration policies indeed act as a pull factor for migration in a gravity model that controls also for the restrictiveness and skill selectivity of migration policies. Yet, it seems that more elaborate integration policies affect primarily the number of high-skilled immigrants entering the territory, but not the number of medium or low skilled, and this only for those from EU countries. Different" The study refers to the period 2007-2019. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1