Working through barriers : host country institutions and immigrant labour market performance in Europe / Irena Kogan

This book deals with the role host countries' institutional characteristics play in the labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union. Drawing on existing research it develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors (and underlying mechanisms) affecting immigrant structural integration in the European Union-15. It maps the European countries with respect to three institutional aspects central to immigrant integration, immigranttion policies, labour market structure and welfare regimes. Further, it presents a descriptive picture of the labour market situation of the immigrant population in the European Union and seeks to axplain the variation in labour market outcomes, namely unemployment risk adn occupational status, with reference to differences in the characteristics on the immigrant populations on the one hand, and by differences in lavour market structure, immigration policies and welfare regimes in Europen Union countries, on the other. In-depth analyses of a selected number of EU countries are carried out, with the aim of investigating the extent to which immigrants have succeeded or failed in different institutional contexts.