Titre
Why do immigrants have longer periods of unemployment ? Swiss evidence
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Auer, Daniel
Auteure/Auteur
Bonoli, Giuliano
Auteure/Auteur
Fossati, Flavia
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
0020-7985
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2017
Volume
55
Numéro
1
Première page
157
Dernière page/numéro d’article
174
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Notes
First published: 18 December 2016
Résumé
Immigrant groups, especially those originating from non-European countries, tend to experience disadvantages in the labour market and to be overrepresented among the recipients of welfare benefits in many European countries. In the public debate, this outcome is sometimes explained with reference to migration-related factors such as weaker work values than natives (i.e., acceptability of remaining on benefits), smaller and lower quality of informal networks and lower levels of psychological well-being. Indeed, we find that these factors significantly influence unemployment duration in the expected direction. However, they explain only a small share of the overall disadvantage that some immigrant groups experience. We conclude that at least some of the large differences we observed in unemployment durations are likely to be due to other factors including discrimination by employers.
Sujets
PID Serval
serval:BIB_5BA7DD59D1AE
Date de création
2017-01-03T07:48:42.141Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T18:05:35Z