Labour-market assimilation of foreign workers in Italy

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia

doi:10.1093/oxrep/grn030

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“…These results can be interpreted in two opposite ways, both of which are supported by evidence from other studies. Firstly, our results support the hypothesis of negative selection in remigration pointed out by the aforementioned studies about migrant assimilation in the Italian labour market (Venturini and Villosio 2008;Dell' Aringa and Pagani 2011;Strom et al 2013). Secondly, they highlight the effects of the family reunification and settlement process on family economic conditions: the presence of a completely reunified family entails a temporary status of poverty due to the growth of family size and assimilation with the Italian lifestyle necessitating extra spending (Barbiano di Belgiojoso et al 2009;Rimoldi and Barbiano di Belgiojoso 2014).…”

Section: Length Of Staysupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Assuming that an aim of migration is to better economic conditions for the family across borders (host and origin country), we expected to have double association with migrants' intentions. On the one hand, economic difficulties could be a temporary condition attributable to an early stage of the migration or family reunion (Rimoldi and Barbiano di Belgiojoso 2014) associated with settlement intention; on the other hand, these conditions may reflect a real difficulty of integration into the host country labour market and therefore could be associated with the intention to leave the host country in a short time (Constant and Massey 2002;Jensen and Pedersen 2007;Venturini and Villosio 2008;Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Ortensi 2013;Mara and Landesmann 2013).…”

Section: Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Intentions on desired length of stay among immigrants in Italy

Belgiojoso

2016

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The decision to emigrate from the country of origin may not be a permanent one: migrants can decide to return home or to emigrate to a third country. This phenomenon, established for some time in certain other European countries, has become an important one for Italy only recently. This paper contributes to the knowledge of migrants' intentions in two ways: on the one hand, it analyses the factors associated with indecision about future plans; on the other, it focuses on the desired length of stay and its relationship with attachments (family, economic, socio-cultural and psychological) to host and home country. We used two logistic regression models: one for migrants' indecision and the other for migrants' desired length of stay. The data were collected by survey, coordinated by the ISMU Foundation and conducted in 2008 and 2009 with more than 12,000 migrants living in Italy. According to our results, indecision seems to be associated with an intermediate phase of migration at the early stage of family development in the case of negative balance of the migration experience, while attachment to the host country is associated with longer stay, and no attachments or attachment to the country of origin are associated with shorter stay.

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Section: Length Of Staysupporting

confidence: 88%

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Intentions on desired length of stay among immigrants in Italy

Belgiojoso

2016

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“…We can assume that many of these women opted to work irregularly as a domestic maid due to the informality of the hiring process, while expecting that they would eventually be able to secure status through one of the retroactive amnesties the Spanish government has periodically granted. This process has been described for Italy by Fullin and Reynery (2011) and Venturini and Villosio (2008). Furthermore, the difficulties involved in having their educational qualifications obtained abroad recognised in the destination country explains why even highly qualified immigrant women may be unable to get a skilled job upon arrival (Bernardi, Garrido and Miyar, 2011).…”

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The labour trajectories of immigrant women in Spain: Are there signs of upward social mobility?

Vidal-Coso

Gamundi²

2014

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“…In their analysis of wage and employment assimilation using a matched employers/employee administrative panel dataset, Venturini and Villosio (2008) found that migrants do not assimilate. In particular, Romanians who are employed in construction (male) and house services (female) are in jobs without career possibilities…”

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Migration in Italy Is Backing the Old Age Welfare

Boca

Venturini

2016

Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession

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Labour-market assimilation of foreign workers in Italy

Cited by 52 publications

References 25 publications

Intentions on desired length of stay among immigrants in Italy

Intentions on desired length of stay among immigrants in Italy

The labour trajectories of immigrant women in Spain: Are there signs of upward social mobility?

Migration in Italy Is Backing the Old Age Welfare

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