dc.contributor.author | ARCARONS, Albert | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-09T11:08:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-18T03:45:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Florence : European University Institute, 2017 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/49844 | |
dc.description | Defence date: 18 December 2017 | en |
dc.description | Examining Board: Prof. Hans-Peter Blossfeld, European University Institute (supervisor), Prof. Fabrizio Bernardi, European University Institute; Prof. Héctor Cebolla-Boado, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia; Prof. Lucinda Platt, London School of Economics and Political Science | en |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis is a collection of three empirical studies on the impact of social origin on labourmarket outcomes across migration status and ethnic-origin categories. The existence of immigrant and ethnic penalties in the labour market is a recurrent finding. Migration research has, however, drawn little upon social stratification literature, despite sharing common concerns, to explain them. In this thesis, I seek to contribute to bridging the gap between the two disciplines. I pose two overall hypotheses: (i) compositional differences in social background across ethnic-minority groups and natives are likely to explain an important part of labour market penalties; and (ii) the strength of the effect of social origin on destination and its mechanisms of transmission might differ across groups. These hypotheses are tested by first using log-multiplicative layer effect models followed by different specifications of multivariate analyses based on data from Understanding Society. The findings show that: (i) class overrides ethnicity in explaining intergenerational mobility, although the strength of the OD association differs by ethnic origin and gender; (ii) labour-force participation is a gendered process with significant differences across migration status and ethnic origin, which are partly explained by the work status of the mother-in-law transmitted through partner/spouse’s characteristics; (iii) employment penalties are explained to a large extent by parental work status, education, and age, with variation in the strength of the effect of the last two factors across ethnic origin; and (iv) some groups experience more difficulties than natives with similar class backgrounds in employment as well as access to (and stable placement in) the salariat, although education exerts a compensatory effect. I conclude by arguing that future research should investigate further within-group explanations by deepening in the role of different mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of social (dis)advantage at different levels of the labour market. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | European University Institute | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | SPS | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | PhD Thesis | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
dc.subject | Social origin | en |
dc.subject | Ethnic origin | en |
dc.subject | Migration status | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Labour market | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Discrimination in employment -- European Union countries | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Diversity in the workplace -- European Union countries | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Foreign workers -- European Union countries | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Minorities -- Employment -- European Union countries | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Labor market -- European Union countries | |
dc.title | Unequal after all? : non-ethnic explanations of ethnic penalties in the labour market | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.2870/36087 | |
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dc.embargo.terms | 2021-12-18 | |